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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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block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

While capturing a Risk Event, system error appears requesting end user to refresh the page (APAR PH30431)

The system error impacts end users who may lose data captured and be required to do rework. This creates resistance to use of the system. Although the help text does guide the user to navigate this defect - it is not optimal.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

UTF8 conversion problem - EBCDIC

Message UTF-8 => After conversion in EBCDIC EBCDIC_STR('Hi, my name is Андрей (Andrei)'); => Hi, my name is \0410\043D\0434\0440\0435\0439 (Andrei) But for the character � (UTF-8 replacement character) the function returns the value X'3F' in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Setup Automatic Alerts when Background Report Execution is Queued Up

when multiple reports are running at the same time as background process, lets say one of the bad report caused most of the reports into pending state. we would like to have a feature that can alert us indicating multiple reports are in pending st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

INQUEUE PREEMPTION

Because "Preemption scheduling" is actually for the jobs in different queues. LSF today has no such feature or concept of in-queue preemption. the new feature maybe work like this: define a INQUEUE_PREEMPT=[[userA,80%] [userB,20%]] ... For example...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add options END_USER_PROFILE / IN_PROFILE in workflow Applicability criteria.

Some workflows need to be started depending on the Profile of the user. Currently it is not possible to validate the profile of the user in the Applicability section of Workflows. The validation of Profile is a common feature in other functionalit...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Cube to cube drill through should export to excel

Hi, I would like to have it so that my users can do a cube to cube drill through in PAW and if they need to be able to export to csv the same as they can with the cube to database drill through in PAW
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Reports not aggregating percentages

The active reports do not aggregate percentages accurately when aggregating up a hierarchy. MHT file can be provided with an example.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration