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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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Submit sub-groups

In Cognos Controller it's possible to submit (close) company reporting for a specific closing version, defined in general configuration. In larger groups next step is often, closing of groups/subgroups (including other journal types than the compa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Couchbase Data Source

Customer is now leveraging Couchbase for data that needs to be reported on.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use FSCR information to ommit empty data pages while performing Table Scan (TBSCAN)

ABSTRACT:Table scan over volatile table with large number of empty pages scans all empty pages instead of using FSCR to find pages to be scanned. VERSION INFORMATION:DB2 9.7.FP5 on Linux / DB2 9.7.FP9a on AIX 7.1 / DB2 10.5.FP4 on Linux TECHNICAL ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used for imagecopies it should put the triggering jobname/CorrID into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used do to image copies it writes the name of the wlm-addressspace to the jobname columne of SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. We like to see the name of the triggering job/CorrID there, because we need this information. An alternative would b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW - SQL replication should optionally use TRUNCATE when performing a Full Refresh of large tables

Db2 LUW SQL Replication (10.2.1) When you run a Full Refresh of a subscription set, the asnapply utility issues a DELETE FROM <target table> prior to the refresh of the data. For large tables this has a significant and unnecessary overhead -...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release