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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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underscore character in "endpoint" name

in IBM planning Analytics Cloud, under Satellite Connector, when try to create endpoint, underscore charactor is not allowed in the name. can you support allowing endpoint name to have underscore character?
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Initiate (nz)genstats after NRS differential restore run

Actually there is are no statistics on NRS replicate side. In case of a failover genstats must be initiated first before database can be used for production.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

late-binding RunProcess parameters

We currently have a generic TI process that is able to execute asynchronous processes in series or parallel via tm1runti.exe. This approach allows for datatypes to be defined at runtime: tm1Runti -i ..\TM1ProcRun\tiprocess.config -connect SERVICE ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
3 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pafe should always display what is in the cube when doing a retrieve.

If a cube cell evalutes to #N/A due to a divide by zero error or circular reference then the following behaviour is observed. In an exploration view in PAW the cell value is #N/A, correct! In quick and exploration reports then cell displays as emp...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Sharepoint/Teams/OneDrive Connector for SPSS Statistics Shared Files

Shared SPSS files append local user file path when accessing and saving via Windows File Explorer. This causes instability when another user then tries to go access and modify the file and so on. There needs to be a Cloud connector for customer wh...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration