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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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Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Group jobs to same cluster when using bsub -cluster feature

Goal: Group together lsf jobs, "regression", in such a way that bsub -cluster feature directs all jobs in the group to the same cluster. Proposal: a) bsub submits all jobs in a job array to a single cluster bsub -cluster all -J "ArrayName[1-10]" /...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Attachment to a journal in Controller Web

When posting a journal in Controller Web it would be very helpful if you could attach a file, not only write a text.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

PAx set editor filter enhancements

Would like the ability to filter by the legacy definition of level (numeric) as well as the new definition of level (string). When filtering by the legacy definition of level (numeric) would like all operators to be available, like <, >, <...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Embed IFF-File into WSL

We run the Compare on an integration test system and transport the created workstatement list in Converted format (action_convert_to_read_wsl = 'Y' ) to each target system. There, we make any necessary adjustments, e.g. to the schema or the databa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes

Customer is using 4.8.1 version of CP4D and actively using DataStage and WS pipelines. Below scenario is for both DataStage flows and Watson Pipelines as well. Currently multiple users can simultaneously open the same flow and make changes without...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Allow generated utilities to operate on a listdef rather than individual steps

If we generate a utility such as copy against a list of objects then the resulting job, or jobs, are generated with one step per object. This makes the JCL unwieldly and serialises the run.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Integration with Spectrum Scale object storage

IBM is involved in implementing data integration solution for State Bank of India using DataStage (version 11.7) and Spectrum Scale (version 5.05). DataStage is supposed to read / write object storage data hosted in Spectrum Scale using Swift prot...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Allow Cognos Framework manager to take a JASON ro rest api as a datasource

Enhance Cognos Framework Manager to be able to use and API or JSON output as a datasource. This will save applications from having to temporarily save API outputs into a database.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

identify unit of work in insync replication

On the occasions when or replication latency grows beyond our comfort point, we want to know which unit or units of work are driving that latency. We want to know this so that we can either cancel that unit of work or perhaps temporarily drop that...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered