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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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Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Utility for multiple job compile at server level in DataStage

Hi Team, I'm looking for a Utility at server level for multiple job compile. I want to know whether DataStage have any utility for mutilple job compile at server level? I know that we have dscc.exe at client level to perform compilation! I want th...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Manual Journal Entry information needed in Planning Analytics

The FP&A team needs more details about the journals for their finance analysis, including header information as available in the reports XBJH and XDB22 from Cognos Controller. These information could also be leveraged to help automating some o...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Way to identify and extract all emails sent from openpages/cognos for auditing

As per the audit requirement, we would like to extract all the email triggered from Openpages (via workflows, triggers, etc) and cognos (via schedules ,etc..) for a point of time like last 1 week or 1day with below details.. Email recipients Email...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Runstats: additional opti...

Runstats will fail during execution if an object is unavailable or still does not exist (although 'define yes'). Please provide an option to skip those objects and continue with next object.During LISTDEF there is the option e.g. ITEMERROR SKIP to...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos output tab naming issue

The default naming of cognos report output excel tabs are like Page1_1, Page1_2, Page1_3 (after page set enabled). I have set the property RSVP.EXCEL.PAGEGROUP_WSNAME_ITEMVALUE and the tab naming are changed as expected(with group name) . But afte...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

MDM v12 SSO with ISVA

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/12.0?topic=imic-enabling-third-party-authentication-single-sign-sso-in-inspector This link is lacking, per ISVA support and customers. Please provide integration instructions for SSO using ISVA to MDM v12
about 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow system administrators to specify bufferpool sizes in "M" or "G", rather than pages.

With big memory and bufferpools measured in gigabytes, sizing pools by number of pages becomes tedious and error-prone. A 1GB pool requires one to specify -ALT BPOOL(BPx) VPSIZE(262144). A 5GB pool would be VPSIZE(1310720). Most users use "round" ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Consolidated Database Availability (weekly/monthly) Report.

Data Management Console currently doesn't have a capability to generate a weekly/monthly "Database Availability" report of all the Databases that are being monitored. This enhancement needs to be added so that DMC can generate a report which shoul...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Make name of object the default when exporting

Currently when exporting a DataStage object from Designer (with rightclick->Export), the tool will suggest the last used filename as "Export to file:" filename. In most cases (when exporting a single object) I want to name the DSX like the obje...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration