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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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New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

How to Change text of summary

Hi, I have a requirement where user would like to change the text of summary (which displays at last for list and crosstab report) to total or any any other meaningful name based on the ouput during the creation of dashboard. However, we have the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Improve Jupyter Notebooks behaviour to allow SSL only at the Gateway.

In earlier 11.2.x versions (pre-11.2.3), it was possible to enable SSL on the Optional Gateway, but still be able to access Jupyter Notebooks via both the Gateway and (non-SSL) dispatcher, as the communication between the Dispatcher and Jupyter wa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

When a Benchmark job fails It would be nice to see the bsub used to submit the job

We can manually construct the actual bsub, but it would be nice to be able to cut and paste it when editing the Benchmark job so we can test that it actually will work. In one case we were getting "Queue Permission Errors" and it having that bsub ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Export Job should allow for customization for sorting of data by attribute

When exporting the file customization on order in which the data is sorted would be useful for many purposes. Once example is sorting by oldest to newest so that loading the file into another environment allows transactions to be loaded in chronol...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

DKIM

with e-mail spoofing on the rise the use of SPF, DKIM and DMARC are on the raise as Cognos Analytics can send e-mails out to user's it would be nice if Cognos Analytics could be configured to use DKIM with the e-mails so companies can use tighter ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistent handling for exportModel(), writeMIPStarts() , etc

The handling where methods like e.g. exportModel() and writeMIPStarts() is not consistent and not intuitive. In case no absolute path is specifies, exportModel() always writes the file parallel to the mod-file. Whereas writeMIPStarts(), while star...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration