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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Error Logs to be 'user preference' independant

In the COGSERVER.log and AUDIT database entries, we see that errors are logged in German if the user has selected German language in his preferences. While you expect the user interface to show in preferred language, the server logs are expected i...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Controller AFC is not transferred into FAP properly

When transferring AFC values from Cognos Controller into FAP, figures are not transferred properly and therefore cannot be used in reporting purposes. For example, consolidation data is wrongly calculated within TM1 because each consolidation leve...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

ODBC Connection for Multi TM1 Server IBM PA Cloud instance, lock a specific Database to a specific DSN

In the Cloud: IBM PA can use Json Key and Simba ODBC for connecting to the on prem data. This works ok if you do not mind the Data tier in IBM PA showing all DSN connections to all Datasets and projects in on prem data. When you have a scenario wh...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Password encryption on QMF Server and Data Virtualization Manager and the JDBC driver.

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
over 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of writing data to Scenario DB

As per our analysis DOC uses JDBC "batch insert" method when writing data to Scenario Database. A much faster method would be "multiple row insert", which can also be done with JDBC. The following link shows how to do it in Java. The author measur...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

PAX Action Button Refresh - Execute Calculation Options before display Success/Failure Message

In Perspectives once an action button runs a TurboIntegrator process, the "Calculations" section under Options is applied first then the success/failure messages are displayed. This allows the developer to have custom success/failure messages whic...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Catalog dynamic IP address frustrates IP address security filters in remote clouds and on-premise systems.

I'm testing the Data Catalog's ability to access a remote(to IBM's cloud) relational database. I provisioned a NoSQL database using AWS RDS service. I wanted to set the AWS security group to only permit access from the IP address used by the Data ...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration