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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.

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Need WebSphere MQ 9.x supported by InfoSphere Information Server - DataStage 11.5

Currently we are 50 percent complete of a new a Grid enabled InfoSphere Information Server - DataStage 11.5.0.2 build. We learned that this version supports WebSphere MQ - 7.1.x, 7.5.x, 8.0. We were expecting to install version 9.0.0.2 of MQ - see...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Error Descriptions

Improve Error Descriptions Current error message are very generic and it is hard to understand what exactly the failure is looking at the logs Improve on the error reporting for users to understand the error without enabling traces to understand t...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permission to create in the database

At the end of the Content Store configuration it tests the permission to create tables. We have created the tables manually , the permission to create tables is not necessary.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

White-Out Conditional Formatting in Workspace

A client for a project I was recently working on requested consolidated custom reports to minimize the total number of reports they had to maintain. With that being said, the client asked that on one of the reports, we create custom conditional fo...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Operator updates less aggressive restart of instance pods

Subscriptions offer the possibility to choose between automatic and manual update approval. Choosing automatic results in direct updates of operators as soon as the subscription is updated. In our case, automatic update approval results in updatin...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

rowchangetimestampoverride as a load parameter

Our customer needs TIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP NOT NULL columns to be copied to the test environment. Actually these columns and values disappear during convert for load.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Mapping Visualization Extra Zip Codes

Current map visualtion for Cognos Analytics is missing or else is unable to resolve some zip codes that need to be in place for a critical security dashboard. Because the current map provider has not included some zip codes, a dashboard mapping CO...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration