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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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Ability to hide a nested crosstab column

In crosstab report " box type " property is "none " is applied on nested data items in column but not on their parents. See APAR PI30191I
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Default for language selection listbox when override the default report properties

When the checkbox «Override the default values» is checked in the report properties panel, the format and the language must be specify. we don't want specifcy the language. Only the format must be specify. The language must depends to the user p...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations

There is no way to translate Report Studio query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations (no report language variable, no additional options). Automatic summary elements only have one name too ("summary (measure)"). Regardless of the langua...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make compressed timestamp columns use TIMESTAMP datatype in the control file

After performing load service, Timestamps do not have milliseconds in Oracle target database althoughsource database timestamps have milliseconds Steps to Reproduce :Step1 : Unzip the histo.zip file provided in other to get "histo" folderStep2 : R...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show detailed error message in Cognos Analytics Data Module- Cognos 11.0.12

Team, We are using the Data module functionality more often. We are not receiving the detailed error message in the screen if there is any issue with the underlying data. It is just showing the standard error message "Can not load grid data:...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

}Externals Folder Maintenance

There are scenarios where old files stay behind in the}Externals folder. Either from file system issues or connection issues during a report update or deletion. Over time these files clutter the folder and make it hard for us to do analysis on the...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support query parameters in projection clause

See: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001MLNI2AAP/db2parameter-not-working-with-merge-statement This works with DB2 according to IBM support staff.
over 4 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ----...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Cell Auditor Capability

ON some (but not yet all report types) in PAx you have the capability to get the cell properties. It would be useful to get more information on the results of the cell. Especially if it is referencing an invalid element. Also please expand the pro...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration