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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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Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

PAW | Advanced Synchronization | Respect Sorting when utilizing Member and Descendents from a Selector List

The Selector List Sort Order does not reflect in the MDX generated within a synchronized view utilizing the advanced synchronization feature. For example, we've built a selector list containing only Departments and we have created an advanced sync...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Address Manta log-viewer API timeout performance

Current state: When a Manta user tries to download a workflow log (to debug or attach to a support ticket), the Manta instance often (in 99% cases) returns with a HTTP 504 Gateway timeout error. This happens because:1. Manta is connected to an AWS...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Additional Reminders - Leading to the work

It would be helpful if IBM can send 1-2 additional reminders to the client with relation to Scheduled Maintenance Notification.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Request to modify the default command for automatic statistics update to allow user customization

I have worked on case TS017430261. Please allow users to modify the default runstat syntax used for auto runstat at the database level or schema level, not the set profile per table.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted