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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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Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Safer Payments should activate the key generated on KMIP server instead of manually activating the key on KMIP server.

We have to activate key created on KMIP servers manually each time before we can actually activate master key change. KMIP standard says it has to be managed by application. Need Safer Payments to activate the key before starting the master key ch...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

help in the cleaning of package versions

We'd like to have a new ZPARM to limit the max number of version for packages. Once this number is reached a new version replaces the older one. Otherwise a COMMAND like MODIFY to facilitate DBA in housecleaning
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Burst Report - Dynamic Email Subject

The ability for bursting via email to have a dynamic email subject. Currently able to add HTML report to email body - would be useful to add a subject line in a similar way.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Host name Control in datastore to prevent reverse DNS lookups

Using Access Server, we have datastores that connect via IP and every time it try’s connect it does a DNS reverse lookup and times out. The datastore accepts IP and hostname, we need a way to stop the DNS reverse lookup for the connection.
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update for 11.7.1.1

We have received an email from Snowflake that any Snowflake client driver versions lower than the following will reach the end of support as of November 1st, 2024, according to Snowflake Support policy: • Snowflake SnowSQL 1.2.24 • Snowflake Pytho...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

PAW | Advanced Synchronization | Respect Sorting when utilizing Member and Descendents from a Selector List

The Selector List Sort Order does not reflect in the MDX generated within a synchronized view utilizing the advanced synchronization feature. For example, we've built a selector list containing only Departments and we have created an advanced sync...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted