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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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Improve Data Transfer between Different TM1 Servers

TM1 does not a user friendly and easy mechanism to transfer data between different TM1 servers. Currently there are 2 options, but none of them can be properly used: 1 - Use Replication to transfer and synchronize data from different TM1 servers: ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include Dashboards in Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact"

Currently the Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact" just scans reports for changed objects in the model.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

API to write dictionary to log

A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration