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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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PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Load file which can be used in LOAD RESUME YES for REDO records

When generating REDO SQLs for a transaction recovery scenario an option to generate a load file (to be used in LOAD RESUME YES) containing the REDO record will be nice to have where there were a lot of records to apply say millions and the users u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to create customizable dashboards in 10.0.5.3 API connect analytics

Currently we do not have the ability to create customizable dashboards in 10.0.5.3 as we did previously in 10.0.1.7 version of PAI connect analytics. This impacts our business as we had previously created our customizable dashboards to have a more...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Support for multiple TM1 login URI's

I know that you can enter several TM1 Admin Server URI's in PAW configuration by separating them by ; it would be great to be able to do same with TM1 Login Server URI's, to my knowledge this is not possible today.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 REST service should support ‘Using ARRAY data type as INPUT parm in a Native SQLPL’

We have a SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT/OUTPUT parm. REST Service allows to ‘create’ as service calling ‘SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT parm’ but throws error while calling the same service. Method :POST Scheme://HOST[“.” PORT][PATH][“?”QUE...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Keep layout when sending Trial Balance to Excel

In a Trial Balance in Controller there are lines (between rows) to display which accounts are summation accounts. When sending the report to Excel the layout disappear. Consequently, the report in Excel are almost impossible to read. My customers ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Provide a method to allow LSF simulations to be captured by a customers RTM

Provided a customer set's up a RTM hostname, and credentials, when a simulation is started, register the simulation clusters data collector and the cluster itself with that RTM and then enable collection for the duration of the simulation. Name th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Application rotation or maintenance of created files in /tmp (ex. snappy)

The product leaves temporary files into /tmp directory that are not properly taked care of. That means that external processes must be carried out in order to not flood that directory. Could you please implement into the product any mean of addres...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Spacing of Text in Prompts

Provide additional configuration options on setting the Text spacing. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration