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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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Allow Session Scheduler to support the queue level Job Starter when the Session Spreads to Multiple Hosts

In testing of Session Scheduler, it works perfectly, on secondary hosts, it does not seem to respect our job starter which will limit our ability to deploy Session Scheduler more broadly. Closing this gap is important.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data Lineage and Impact Analysis - Availability of version control on schema metadata

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to track changes on metadata, so that I can check how a previous version of metadata looked like, so that I can control from my end if important attributes are not lost while the source is being changed (e.g., ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add user group filter for bacct and bhist

To evaluate jobs w.r.t. user groups/fair share groups I would like to have a filter for user groups in bacct and bhist similar to the option -G of bjobs.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Online Change of CF_MEM_SZ should be online

It's not possible to change CF_MEM_SZ without stopping DB2 pureScale instance. If you want to add a database or increase memory usage to improve performance, it's not possible without downtime. pureScale should be highly available, but it's not wi...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Bulk Update for a questionnaire should respect question dependencies

When you have a questionnaire with some questions appear or not depending on the answer of a previous question, Bulk Update functionality does not respect it. Dependent questions either do not become available, cannot be selected or answered prope...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Locally defined functions within stored procedures and user defined functions

Since Db2 10.1 it is possible to define locally defined types and procedures. In many situations locally defined functions are missing.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Enhance ClassCastException to Support Integration with Dynatrace

We need to submit a request to enhance Cognos Analytics. Dynatrace is a system monitoring tool. It monitors your infrastructure (Server memory, CPU, etc.), as well as the application (in memory monitoring). When Dynatrace is enabled there is a fea...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Document that mipgap and absmipgap are no pure termination criteria but can impact the path Cplex takes in B&C

As discussed in support case TS007960403, Cplex parameters mipgap and absmipgap can impact the path Cplex takes during Branch and Cut. I suggest to document this because from the description of the parameters one can expect that these are pure te...
over 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration