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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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Enabling the "XLS" option avaialble for reports along with "PDF" and "XLSX".

The user find it more efficient to format the data in XLS format for Cognos Reports.
28 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fix the Python Extension Input node in 18.5

Modeler 18.5 The new option for writing native Python code (pandas-like) in Extension nodes is incomplete because the Extension Input node does not allow assigning a dataframe for the data; instead, you must use the Extension Input node solely fo...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

Add custom message to file upload prompt

In Planning Analytics Workspace when a action button is added to a book, a user may choose to run a process and allow a file upload. It would be really helpful if we could customise the message that is displayed to the user when the user is prompt...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Acceleration information missing for packages

In Admin Tool we list a package that is bound with QUERYACCELERATION(ALL). The information regarding acceleration that is kept in SYSACCELERATEDPACKAGES and is the result of setting some BIND parameter is not visible in Admin Tool. We suggest that...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release