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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Reset License Counter or Show Active Licenses

Currently, the License Counter is useless, as it does not show the current License needs, only shows historically the highest level each user ever has been granted.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display existing Advanced Settings in Manage > Configuration > System fly-out panel

I have used the Advanced Settings in Manage > Configuration > System fly-out panel to set the value for "Portal.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite". However, to view the current setting I need to navigate directly to the underlying "configurati...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Need ability to download entire view in PAW. Paging is to slow to use effectively.

When editing large dimensions and attributes inside a PAW view the paging that takes place makes it difficult to quickly identify data and update it. Each time you scroll down using the scroll bar it takes 2 to 3 seconds to refresh the screen. Is ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dimensions in columns in Trial Balance

Customers works more and more with extended dimensions. They have a strong wish and need to select to see dimensions in columns in the same way that you can select to see companies in columns.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to load CDC SMF data into Db2 for z/OS tables for reporting

We customized CDC (Apply and Capture Task) to write several statics into SMF. But as of today there is no official support (JCL/ sampling) how to parse and prepare those SMF data to import them into Db2 tables or spreadsheets for further reporting...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add nesting/grouping x-axis values for Visualizations like Legacy charts

Nesting/grouping x-axis values option is available in Legacy charts. It would be very helpful to have the same functionality for visualizations.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IBM CDC multiple OU recognition in the ldap.properties

We have to give full hierarchy of OU for the user in authUserBaseDN, which means it is restricting to use users from two different OUs.i. Example: current we have used “authUserBaseDN=OU=ConsultantAccounts,OU=Users,OU=Corporate,DC=tiffco,DC=netâ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration