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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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Workflow Enhancement -- Current Quarter and Year Function

I commonly bump into needing to fill in a drop down value with current year or quarter on a stage transition. I am request the ability for have a [$Current_Year] or [$Current_Quarter] function rather than need to develop a simple trigger to push t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Searchable Operations Console

Enable the ability to search and filter in the operations console. The ability to filter when viewing a job for a specific invocation id would be ideal.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

New function request for DB2INSYNC

Need Db2INSYNC to tolerate differences between source and target. do not stop/error replication for log activities, like reorg with discard, that do not write individual log records for replication issuing a warning is ok it cannot require a table...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

getting data when creating a new dynamic report

Having new boolean variable, similar to TM1REBUILDOPTION, but for getting data when creating a new dynamic report, even if Excel calculation option is set to "Manual". For example : TM1FIRSTGETDATA=1 would get data when creating a new dynamic repo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

How to estimate incremental backup size?

I would like to know that How to estimate incremental backup size? And If i calculate the data per day from transaction log or archive log?If not, Could you please suggest another way for calculate the data?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Web Client and 'columns for journals'

The Controller Web Client is currently enabled for 'standard' journal treatment only, it is not currently compatible with 'journals as columns', as defined within submission set up.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Highlighted Cells in Applications not Totaling in Footer

In Cognos Enterprise Planning, it was a function that allowed you to automatically calculate highlighted cells in EP Contributor. In TM1 Contributor and TM1 Web, highlighting a single cell will show the value in the footer, but selecting multiple ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration