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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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Event ID 6645 Conundrum

Ideally every CDC Event ID should be unique and have a Unique description or Event Text. What we noticed is that the event ID 6645 could mean any of the following scenarios: 1. Exception occurred during replication. Exception at continue reading I...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

ICAM Authentication in Cognos Analytics

We are switching our authentication from LDAP to ICAM and we are looking to implement ICAM authentication by replacing existing LDAP authentication in IBM Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2MSTR could issue a message at startup when there is an APF library problem instead of making an abend S0C4 in DSNYASCP

Sometimes we are having changes in APF libraries and if one or more libraries are not authorized, the MSTR address space will fail with an abend S0C4 in module DSNYASCP An informative message providing the name(s) of APF libraries causing problem ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RDS on SQL Server support for Cognos Controller

We plan to upgrade Cognos Controller from 10.3 to 10.4.2 as version 10.3 is reaching its EOL. For this upgrade, on Database side we look for option to go with AWS RDS for SQL server. I have logged a case TS005705990 to check if RDS SQL DB is suppo...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

CLI command to export/import DS-objects in XML format

After developing new DataStage objects (or changing them), we have to manually export them in order to get them in XML Format. The only CLI functionality provided is istools, that Exports DS objects as ISX, which is not usable within a Control Ver...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Operator action from CPCS Entries is not getting logged in SystemLogs Screen

When an operator manually updates a flag in CPCS Entries Screen, the detail is getting logged in Audit database table and not displayed in UI SystemLogs screen. It would be beneficial as MIS supporting the application to see everything on the UI S...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Functionality for retrieving inactive users added for API

Current minimal attribute API doesn't retrieve disabled users, only active ones. We propose to also have an opportunity to retrieve the inactive users. This would enable us to make the user management automatic as currently there is no way to disa...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in Google Cloud Storage Connector Stage

Related to existing idea - "Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage"
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration