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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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Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Use Limitkeys as histogram-stats, if appropriate

Recently we had a Performance Problem where I was requested to collect histogram-stats for a column, which matches the partitioning column. Because this was a big table, running this runstats took about 9 hours to complete. If limitkeys could serv...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monitor archive file location for access problems

When the archive location is not accessible by the cognos dispatcher the problem should be logged and reported to the system administrator.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to fill lookup attributes via keyboard

Product: MDMCE 11.5.0 - Single-Edit-ScreenCurrently the (new) simplified UI permits a convenient enrichment of most attributes just using the keyboard, e.g. TAB-key to jump to the next input field. However, lookup attributes are more complicated t...
almost 8 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Specifying the Workload Management Queue in Job Activity stage

Currently when a sequence job is launched in a particular workload management queue, all jobs in the sequence job are submitted to this queue. We would like to have the possibility to specify the queue in the Job Activity stages within the sequenc...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Trial Balance

When the trial balance is sent to Excel, the desire that the headlines would be locked in the same way as they are when you don't choose to send the report to Excel.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Log DRDA listener messages to online.log similar to current logging of the SQLI listener.

The DRDA listener (drsoctcp) is not logging any error messages to the online.log. The SQLI listener (onsoctcp) does log messages when, for example a wrong username is being used to connect to the instance: 15:45:00 listener-thread: err = -951: ose...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limited user rights for Actualities

Is it possible to add within the user rights limitations for actualities in Cognos Controller?
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration