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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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Validation Field [$System Fields:Date Last Modified$]

I would like to create a calculation validation that uses Date Last Modified but it's not an available field. The use case is being able to reference this date to auto set a status to "Dormant" based off this date.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Websheets: Expand/collapse of grouped columns and rows (Excel grouping)

In websheets it would be useful, if the Excel function of grouping columns or rows would be supported in PA Spreadsheet Services. In this case, grouped columns or rows could be expanded and collapsed on demand.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reorg on criteria

Add new option to allow the reorg utility to discard / keep rows during the reorganization
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

truncated hostnames in bjobs output

For a debug where hosts are available but jobs are not landing on them - I need to run bjobs -UF (or -l) -p2 This command generates below like data structure Slots are reserved for guarantees: xxx3-sim-d18-081, xxx-sim-d18-077, xxx- sim-d30-065, x...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Prevent FastMap from stopping uploading at any error found on a record

The client would like to have a more quick and efficient way of massively uploading data. Actually Fastmap checks one by one all records to be uploaded, applying its out of the box controls, plus custom triggers controls and stopping every time it...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review