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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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Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

same SQL functionality fo...

The customers of IBMs DB2 products (LUW and z/OS) expect that the existing differnences between the SQL functionalities are getting less from DB2 version to DB2 version. This - 85095,077,724 - is an example for a new functionality in DB2 LUW with ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use PageNumber function in a variable to render the object conditionally

Product: Cognos Report Studio 10.1.1 Currently, according to defect COGCQ00017674 , PageNuber() and PageCount() report function can not be used in a varaible. We wants these function to use these functions in a variable so he can render the object...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Recover statements partitioned tablespace

If there are image copies for a tablespace partition you cannot use DSNUM ALL in the recover statement. You have to name every single partition in the revocer statement. Admin Tool Always generates RECOVER DSNUM ALL. We have to edit that ourselves...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP

ACM (Advanced Catalog Management) currently supports only FTP. Unfortunately, our customer is disabling FTP protocol organization-wide and pushing all apps to migrate to SFTP. Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP.
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MT Outbound Post Mapper to Support Changing of MT Field Values

The current MT Outbound Post Mapper already has the MT message converted to a blob and so there is no easy way to change an MT field value. The MT Post Mapper should work more like the ISO Post Mappers in the sense that the Post Mapper can add, de...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Support Mapping PACS.008 Group Header Control Sum Field

Enhance the product PACS.008 inbound and outbound mapper to support the mapping of ISO200222's generic PACS.008 /Document/FIToFICstmrCdtTrf/GrpHdr/CtrlSum field. Ideally, all generic group header fields would be supported.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Support hierarchies in drill through functionality

The TI Function ReturnViewHandle utilized in that feature does not support MDX views which were the only way to include alternate hierarchies. So it is not possible to create drill through processes which respect alternate hierarchies. We need thi...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Access controls on users - need audit log for compliance

Visibility is required to track when an user has been deleted, for auditing purposes. E.g. removed as a subscriber to Planning Analytics? This will need to include the date, user and email address.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Introduction of a hard limit on the size of the Package Cache to avoid memory exhaustion .

Although the package cache is set to a fixed value, it was using more space than the configured size.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration