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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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Hide the parent selection on Create View when the parent is already selected

When we go the task view of an object, for example a Risk, on the task view if we have associated objects, for example, a Control. From here we can add a new control using the 'Add New' button. In this case on the create view of the Control, the p...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Automation Tool incorrectly building RUNSTAT jobs when TS has NPSI being RUNSTAT

Unfortunately the product has been generating jobs incorrectly from the getgo for RUNSTATS. When using load balancing across 20 jobs, the partitions should be spread across the 20 jobs. This works when the NPSI is not having RUNSTATS. When the NPS...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 certification for ISAM

The customer is looking for this technote to be updated with Cognos Analytics 11. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24022695 There current configuration is as follows: onfigured SSO from WebSeal 7.0.0.26 to Cognos v11.0.7 through IH...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Copy Member from Cube View

Users often want to copy the members from a cube view to reuse elsewhere. If you select members and right-click then copy, you copy then data in the view. This is particularly important with larger dimensions and zero suppressed views as users hav...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Retain grid view

Ability to return to the previous view and see it as the user had left it. Currently when we click on a e.g. a risk ID it opens a separate tab (which is fine) but when we return to the main page, the previous view is lost, and we have to start all...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review