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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
almost 6 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

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 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Convert From Dashboard To Report

Would like the ability to take an existing "Dashboard" and convert it to a "Report".
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need a function for excel link and reports for the "Country or Region" code seen in Company structure.

In the Company Structure “Maintain > Company Structure > Define…” there is a field “Country or Region”. The customer requires a there a function to retrieve this information in Controller reports or the Controller Excel link. IBM have confir...
11 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

change the specification of SPSS Modeler 18.1 around the SQL statement syntax check while accessing to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Requirement We’d like you to change the specification of SPSS Modeler 18.1 around the SQL statement syntax check while accessing to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Currently Modeler uses the stored procedure called “sp_prepare “ which has big overhead ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration