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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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Support of Active Directory Groups or Cognos Groups in PAW local

At the moment there is no possibility to import user and Groups from Active Directory or Cognos to PAW. The users and groups have to be imported manually via csv File We would like to have the possibility to manage user and groups for PAW in Activ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future 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...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide 'Member and leaves' option for PAW advanced synchronization

Hi team, We like the addition of the advanced options when it comes to synchronization in PAW views. One thing to consider is adding the option to synchronize members on rows based on a new option called 'Member and leaves'. This is very common re...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration
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Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

To generate the output file 'Export to Excel' and 'Generate Report' functionalities without the Categories.

This is to check the possibility to implement the changes to exclude the hidden mapped category columns of Items from the output files of 'Export to Excel' and 'Generate Report' functionalities. We are assuming that, fetching all the mapped Catego...
16 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Provide Value/Description of Lookup ids in excel sheet for Export to Excel functionality

Please check the possibility to implement the changes to include Value/Description of Lookup ids in excel sheet for Export to Excel functionality. As per the current implementation only Lookup id will be exported as part of this functionality. P...
16 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Include "Drop unmatched fields" option in the Generic jdbc and Database stages using jdbc

Currently we use the property "Drop unmatched fields" in our jobs to run any SQL's in our database stages which has hard coded values, the option is present in generic odbc and in the native database stages which enables us to use the hard coded S...
16 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted