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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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Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
12 days ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Configure multi-user login for DVM JGATE admin site

Scenario: Currently the only way to access the DVM JGATE site (https://db2_subsystem:port/gateway) is to use the admin username and password established during the DVM installation. The data sources within the interface are managed by us, the DB2 ...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration
248 VOTE

Rerun schedule

Sometimes it is important to be able to rerun a schedule. Cognos 10 had the funktionality in my activities and schedules
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing Data Presentation in Excel for Planning Analytics

Excel remains the favored method for consuming data from Planning Analytics. However, users are not entirely satisfied with the presentation options of the Exploration Report, Quick Report, and the new Universal Report. They wish to display indivi...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Setup for DR/Resilience, and dependency between services

The HAScripts ( InfoSvrServices and InfoSvrEngine) do not cover all the processes now required for a full DataStage installation. Some of the processes are set up as services on install e.g in /etc/systemd/system I can see DFDServer InfoSrvKafka I...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

List of Necessary Improvements Post-Audit: Action Steps

Following an audit, the customer needs to correct the following non-compliant points (see attached document):- Rendered decoration images (page 7) - Identical or non-explicit button labels out of context (page 18) - Menus or modals not detected by...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted
239 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration