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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report re-prompt issue

Issue: While running report, we are getting the prompt page for the first time and after selecting few prompt values and run the report. In second run, if we click on the report instead of showing Prompt page again, it is showing the previous run ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Stop predicates in Range-list index scan (Accesstype NR).

Range-list index scan is a very efficient access for SQL Pagination. Whatever we use DB2 11 Syntax: Where ((Col1 = ? AND Col2 >?) OR Col1 > ? ORDER BY Col1, Col2 Or DB2 12 Syntax: Where (Col1, Col2) > ( ?, ?)ORDER BY Col1, Col2 In both ca...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Date in DD/MM/YYYY and Time in 24HH:MI format

Standard format for date and time is not available
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report: Missing Search bar on Data Item expression window while creating a calculated field

In report, search bar is missing on data item expression window while creating a calculated field. While creating a calculated field in dashboard, search bar option is present on the window.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report: Search bar missing on filter condition window

End user is unable to search for a specific value, for example: Departure date, on filter condition window, while applying filter.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select All option should allow user to select all the values across all the pages.

End user has to click every time on Page down to select all the values across pages. For example: when user clicks on select all, values on only particular page gets selected, user has to click on page down then click on select all again .
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Pull up the relevant list of search result as end user types search query/keyword in filter condition search box in report

Currently, in report, end user has to press 'enter' every time after typing the search query in search box of filter condition to pull up the list of relevant search results.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change to memory management algorithm

We use Change Data Capture in several project in our company.We identified a serious problem regarding memory management algorithm. Once a week we have a batch of jobs performing many modifications to replicated tables. This workload is characteri...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Change definition of the "_day_of_week" function for Sybase IQ

The "_day_of_week" function as defined for the Sybase IQ DBMS does not accurately account for the following two internal IQ connection properties: connection_property ('first_day_of_week')connection_property ('date_first_day_of_week') The current ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration