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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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APIs for extracting some info from XMETA

We are currently using ETL jobs to read ETL execution logs(from DSODB) and ETL job modification details(from XMETA). This details are very important for auditing. In the CDP version, can you please include some APIs to get this information extracted.
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Print button for HTML & PDF output in Report when it runs

Hi IBM Support: We would like to use functionality to print a report from the viewer We wanted to put the HTML,EXCEL & PDF images in report studio so that when we select these in report outputs it should print in respected formats. when we sel...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSX - Local: Resource Allocation to Environment.

configure DSX -Local, so it does not allow the users to have environments with unlimited resources or at least prompt a warning.
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

cognos多语言支持需求

Cognos在Report Studio在开发的时候,需要使用语言变量来支持多语言的开发。导致设置的文本项目非常多,工作量巨大。是否可以使用多语言的配置文件,开发只要设置一个key,然后修改对应...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

IBM report studio: Running basic satatistics over a query result, without requerying the database

I need to be able to execute statistical calculations over a query result in Cognos and there are no functions currently. We need to be able to process statistical calcuations after parameterized queries execute and result sets are created. IBM SP...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADD CHUNK' OPERATION SHOULD RETURN WARNING THAT LEVEL 0 ARCHIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE

An 'add dbspace' operation returns the following warning upon completion: ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done. An 'add chunk' operation just returns 'chunk successfully added'. An 'add chunk' operation should also ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Airport Codes in @sys-location entity

Airport codes(eg: ATL for Atlanta, NYC for New York, BLR for Bangalore) to extract location from user utterances. Typing codes are faster than typing the entire location for a user and it will also be easier to identify the departure & arrival...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration