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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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Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve filters for numeric attributes

It is not even the functionalities available for a numeric attribute than there is for the alphanumeric attributes. For the numeric ones, it only gives the option to 'Define a range' or 'Select individual items', but for the alphanumeric ones it a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Copy a Dimension from Dimension Editor in PAW

In Architect, you can open the dimension editor for an existing dimension, click 'Dimension', 'Save As' and give the dimension a new name. In effect this copies the dimension and its element structure. In Planning Analytics Workspace, you can't do...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Supporting Oracle XA Transactions without DTP

As per IDR 11.4, Oracle XA transactions are only supported if DTP is activated in the oracle Database.In our Oracle Exadata environment, XA transactions are mandatory, but we cannot allow DTP being activated, because it has important consequences ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Movement Account Audit Log

During 'system audit' the auditors are expecting to see a User Id assigned to all structural changes made within the chart of accounts. The user ID is populated when updated via the Maintain Account process but NOT when the Generate Movement Accou...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector should be enhanced to support multiprotocol S3 bucket connection.

Currently all S3 connectors provided in DataStage only support nave S3 but not multiprotocol S3. For use cases where user can't map the NAS like region limitation or OCP4 restriction not allowing NAS mount, NAS storage could be configured as S3 bu...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Deploy of QMF websphere on zCX Openshift

We are installing QMF for Websphere on z/OS but would like to run it under zCX Openshift. When will QMF for Websphere container based support for Red Hat OpenShift be available?
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0