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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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TM1 cube views description box and hover-over

In TM1, users and admin create cube views and attempt to save it as a relatable and coherent name such as Variance_Bud_Act_2017, and sometimes just Discretionary_Exps and so forth. With the more frequent use of CAFE and soon to be PAx, all of thes...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

The request expire time for HF scheduled request

We are expecting the instance request overwrite the RequestExpiry set in Template, and keep the request active until end time set by the scheduled request. There is high chance instance got terminated by AWS due to various reasons. Keeping the req...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Future consideration

Please test with and validate Windows 2022 for Optim TDM V11.7

We currently have Optim TDM V11.3 running on Windows 2016. I am working to plan a new server build where we would install Optim V11.7 on a NEW Windows server. I see from documentation that I can find that ONLY Windows 2019 is listed (unless I am l...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

LSF to track SSH and child processes on machines running LSF jobs

To prevent users from sshing into nodes that they do not have a running job on, to restrict the SSH session to the resources that the runing job has on the machine (e.g. cgroups ), to track the ssh connection and any other spawned processes for ac...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Adding Clone tables to Refresh Replication Method in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine

We understand Clone tables are not supported in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine. Our question, it should at least support the mapping of the Clone tables for refresh method as in the case of CDC for DB2 for z/OS as a Remote source. Our earli...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Retention of Formatting in Planning Analytics for Excel Viewer

When using Planning Analytics our Developers create standard views for users so that they can easily see important information in the system. In the RDP Perspectives Cube Viewer you can add formatting to these views e.g #,###;(#,###) which when th...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Attribute Hierarchies - Define at Parent levels

In Planning Analytics Workspace a feature called attribute hierarchies allows users to treat attribute values as a separate dimension in a cube view. This is nice, but at the moment this feature only works on attributes for base dimension elements...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration