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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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Allow Admin Users to put Planning Analytics in Single Mode

In some cases, when we would like to perform some maintenance or run specific processes with higher priority (such as an FAP Initial Publish), we would like to prevent users from loging into the application, so putting it into Single Mode would be...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow FAP to pass Journal Header info over from Controller to Planning Analytics

In order to allow the Finance Planning and Analysis team to have a better view on Journal information in Planning Analytics, it would be best to allow FAP to pass the Journal's header information over from Controller to PA.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 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" ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Email Notifications for Pipeline Failures

On Datastage 11.7 we are able to send emails when a pipeline fails. In Cloud Datastage we are unable to do so. This causes us extra work to check on job statuses.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Db2 for z/OS V13

We use InfoSphere Data Replication to replicate our Db2 for z/OS data to SQL server. This data is then used as source to load our Enterprise Data Warehouse. Since InfoSphere Data Replication does not support Db2 for z/OS V13, we are unable to upgr...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2

Multiple PROFILE tables with suffix

In the same datasharing group we have members with similar but not identical DDF workload. From an application server same AUTHID runs with 100 DBAT but in another member with 500 DBAT. If we had a chance to use multiple PROFILE tables as like RLF...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Displaying labels (values) within Area chart

We can't display value labels within Area chart by dimension. It only displays totals when we hover mouse over area. This does not present complete information in user friendly manner. See the desired attached chart.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data UI: Levels and Members Ugly, Confusing and Redundant

Summary:Need way to control the Dimension UI under cube Data MenuDetails:On the left Data Menu. One see the Dimensions listed under the Views for each cube If you expand the dimension you see the small pyramid with Sets, Levels and Members options...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration