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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 collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Flexlm License controls

We would like to add the enhancement for flexlm license command to release a license from the RTM webui From RTM > License tab > Feature Checkouts > from the list of feature we would like to be able to release a license if neededHere is t...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox for multi-select prompts during report validation

In Cognos 11, there is no checkbox for selecting multiple values during report validation of a report containing a multi-select parameterised filter on hierarchy of dimension. Right now we are using the Ctrl key to select values, but it is very di...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JSON_TABLE enhancement

JSON_TABLE UDF support in DB2 z/OS - while providing some support for parsing JSON documents does not have a robust functionality like JSON_TABLE in I series. Providing a more robust full functionality support - similar to XMLTABLE will allow easy...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

SQLHOSTS groups connect to non-primary

Include at SQLHOSTS options specific for groups to allow connection for non-pimary serversSomething like : conn_sec = 1 Then , the client will be able to connect at any server of the group, no matter if it is Primary / HDR / RSS / SDS. ... Today i...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

RTM column names update

In the 'grid -> job details' view ($RTM_TOP/cacti/plugins/grid/grid_bjobs.php), the names of the column 'Num CPUs' and 'Max Procs' are confusing. Is it possible to rename its respectively 'Alloc Slots' and 'Max slots' ?
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

ANSI SQL-99 Support in DVM

A customer recently conducted a PoC using DVM and z/OS Connect as an alternative to an existing ETL based system which does nightly offloads of IMS data from the mainframe into a SQL Server database which is accessed by client applications. The e...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration