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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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Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow REST services make use of Kerberos authentication.

Today, any REST API authentication calls (logon) need to be provided with a username and password in order to get a conductor token. We would like to be able to use a kerberos mechanism (for example, keytabs) in order to authenticate with the logo...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Mapping of the parameter user name - official documentation by IBM

Request relates to the case TS007570460 from IBM support. The subject matter is the inappropriate mapping of the parameter user name in CP4D, i.e. ambigous mapping of user name. By default the mapping of the user name in CP4D is not equal to the m...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow Excel to recognise the blank zero format from PA

Format c:#,##0_);(#,##0);returns error when in returned in PAX and used in Excel calculation Workaround use c:#,##0_);(#,##0);0
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Invoke the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) for ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events

Currently the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) will not be invoked for all ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events. For instance the only time that FODC_AppErr% events will invoke the db2cos script is when the condition happens on a sub-agent...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt dash line

The default first two lines - header section and dash line. Remove dash line and instead replace 'All' in the second line
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Ability to Move/Copy more than one object at a time

Currently there’s no way to Move/Copy several objects at the same time. It has to be done one at a time which can be very long if you need to move/copy a lot of assets
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to delete disabled nodes when turning off MCR

Currently, when you turn off MCR (Multiple Conditioned Response) it will disable the separate responses instead of deleting them. This means they are kept in the skill/module but won't be visible in the Watson Assistant UI (can be seen in the down...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Native UTF-8 Support in Db2 DSNxLI Interfaces

We have some issues with customer's name, as we don't have this special characters in our codepage. So we try to use UTF-8 on the mainframe (as the data is coming raw in as UTF-8). PL/I and COBOL newly supports native UTF-8: COBOL: PIC U, PL/I: UC...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration