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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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Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dimension file checking mechanism

We had a case .dim file broken after a reboot, "broken" means we can start tm1 instanace with no any error related to dimension but we found some data loss when checking data from cube view, and we tried we need to retore .dim files from backup th...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Options for controlling and securing email attachments

We need to have more options to control email attachment functionality. 1. Give administrators the ability to set access to email attachment option by group/role. 2. Give the option to prevent emailed report attachments when the report contains a ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 to Insert more than 32KB data into a CLOB column

SQL Server Management Studio, Toad for Oracle allow inserts with more than 32 KB column size but DB2 doesn't allow the same and this is a show stopper for few projects to come into DB2 ZoS as data fixes by application team is not possible in produ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Index on RTS versioned History tables

In our environment, we retain the RTS history data for 1 year. Tables are going to grow large due to the busy environment we have.. We would need secondary indexes on these tables. Right now there is none. Since its a years data to analyze the rat...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Customize where Team Content folder appears

In Cognos 11.1.2 we were able to hide Team Content from the home page because we were able to set up a Custom folder from which our clients were able to launch reports. However all of the packages used to create dashboards were located in the Team...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show members for relational data in Reporting like in 11.1.5 Dashboards

As of CA 11.1.5 members can be shown for and used with relational data in Dashboards and Data Modules. That would be a great feature in Reporting as well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration