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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Capability to read data sets and load in database tables - not available per IBM in Cognos 11.1.R5-R7

is it possible to read data sets and load in database tables, whether content store is on database or external storage? Purpose is to reuse Cognos Dataset elsewhere for analysis, so want to load data in table or for any other analytical tool.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change definition of the "_day_of_week" function for Sybase IQ

The "_day_of_week" function as defined for the Sybase IQ DBMS does not accurately account for the following two internal IQ connection properties: connection_property ('first_day_of_week')connection_property ('date_first_day_of_week') The current ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Renaming the Main Folder in Non Production Environment

Currently the main Folder structure in the PA CLOUD Non -Production environment is also named as \\ Data\s\Prod We Want to change the name of the Folder in those environments.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OPTIM ODM should support secure ciphers

As documented in: IBM® Optim Connect Optim Connect Server User Guide and Reference Version 5.3.3 Daemon Security Tab - Encryption methods: "Indicates the encryption method used to send information across the network. The default is an asterisk (*)...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Improve optimizers cost estimation when recursive table expression invloved

Please refer to case TS004038133. Application developer uses SQL EXPLAIN to compare the cost of different SQL statement and decides which one to use. In one case, they found EXPLAIN reported lower cost for one SQL than other but in actual executio...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

The compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs on the z/OS mainframe is possible without an active database connection.This does not work on the AIX platform, which requires a database connection during compilation and a DB user withsufficient privile...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

CASE with EXISTS in UPDATE returns SQL0582N, which is inconsistent behavior with db2 z/OS

db2 "update test_tab set c1=case when exists (selectc2 from test_tab where c2=1) then 'A' else 'B' END" DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it retu...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Log Start and Stop of the IDAA with timestamp and userid

Customer would like to have the start and stop of the IDAA logged in the DSNMSTR and SYSLOG with the Date Timestamp and USERID of the person performing the command.
about 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Command Center: Alternate/default e-mail "Sender Address"

Within Command Center, the E-mail Notification feature allows for "Receiving of e-mail confirmations" which effectively sends the confirmation e-mail to the user from the user (due to the address defined within Maintain > Rights > Users). Th...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enable multiple language collections

We have many customers in Europe who have content in multiple languages. In WEX AC and oneWEX this was not a problem as the first step in the WEX analysis pipeline is to determine the main langaueg for a document and then apply the relevant out of...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration