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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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Remove the option of Classic View from Cognos Analytics for all users

There is an option to go to Classic View when creating a schedule. We need to remove this option since the Classic View UI has the look and feel of Cognos 10 and can be confusing to some of the users. Moreover all the functionality in classic view...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PAW Member names need ability to used Default Alias

We need to be able to set the Dimension Members on the right to a default Alias.We have many code names at the element level that are not user friendly or have changed. So showing the base code in the members does not work.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Self reference !ThisCube name in rule file

Create !ThisCube as reserved word in TM1 for rule file that works as a self reference to the cube name the rule file is created for. The result would be that the rule file can be distributed without need of manual modification. When working with m...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

BigSQL installation using nonroot user needs /bin/bash permissions

For BigSQL v4.2 installation using a non root user such as ambariUser (for example), sudo /bin/bash is needed for this user. Clients is claiming s a security risk for them. They are requesting to remove this permission on installation process or a...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Planned for future release

64bit Interface for PL/I Compiler

When using 64bit PL/I Compile with DB2, the compile needs to copy all parameters before the SQL database access below the bar, and back afterwards. Also, the each access to DB2 s dynamically allocated and deallocated. All in all, this results in a...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration