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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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Report Visualization v11.1 limitation (drill-through options and full-interactivitymandatory)

It is necessary to have drill-through options with the new visualizations 11.1. In the other hand Full interactivity is mandatory to use these new visualizations but it create to much confusion for users coming from the old versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

fast load for CDC PostgreSQL

Building out replication from IMS to PostgreSQL, we tested a refresh of 1.7 mil records which would take an estimated 11 hours. With 428 tables some over 50 mil. We need a faster way to refresh the tables. In addition to normal build out we need t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 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...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

CDC should support Oracle 12c extended data types

Current CDC version (11.4) although supports Oracle 12, doesn't support what Oracle calls "extended data types":https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF55623 Basically on 12c Oracle allows longer maximums for types VARC...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Reject Link Support for Snowflake Stage

We are migrating from Oracle to Snowflake - where Oracle is designed to have a reject link to capture the errors, but for snowflake it's missing.
6 months ago in DataStage 4 Delivered

Add Ability to Pick/Choose Which "Warnings" Are Considered Fatal VS Acceptable

We would like to be able to pick and choose which LAT warnings are acceptable vs which require additional attention. Today, all warnings will generate a return code 4; however, some warnings (like ALAA061W) will completely eliminate a tablespace f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2If the cognos analytics components communicate securely between the dispatcher and gateway, Cognos Transformer 11 does not support connecting to the dispatcher by using TLS 1.2, it only sup...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Drill to Parents in Set Editor

Set Editor has ability to Drill Down to Children. It is missing the ability to Drill Up to the parents. This is capability in Perspectives Subset editor
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

User Defined SQL within Report Studio access

Hi, Is it possible to include in future versions of Cognos the ability to allow specific users only access to read and execute report studio reports containing User Defined SQL but deny these users write access to the User defined SQL. Currently i...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Stacked bar chart with line

In PAW, we require a stacked bar chart with a line as seen on the screenshot attached. The values of the line are from the same dimension as the values from the stacked bar chart. This would help us to compare different planning versions in one di...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered