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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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Consumers, have the Icon to Delete a Report in Team Content, even if they don't have permissions do to so.

Even when removing execute permissions form a consumer to run a report, the ellipses drop down shows Delete icon in Team Content. If they click on it, it says they don't have permission, they should not see the option.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML report formatting in Google Mail

Our company has changed to use Google Mail and HTML reports generated by Cognos with the content embedded in the body lose their formatting as Google Mail has this "feature" that they strip out styling that doesn't follow their rules. It would be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

current IMS log reader TAPE contention behavior needs to be improved during change stream activation

Please refer to the PMR 02209,69G,760 and APAR PI71320 submitter page.--- start of the APAR quotation ---The current IMS log reader VTS contention behavior needs to be improved. Contention occurs when the IMS log reader attempts to access an archi...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

User defined Grid Columns

Introduce the ability for users to amend columns in a grid view swapping in and out object fields
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Incorporate standard logging of events on OpenPages application server

Our company have a standard in submitting all application logs to our enterprise SIEM tool for monitoring. We had inquired with the OpenPages Product Support team but their response was at the time, no standard messaging capabilities - see TS00260...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

Enable the Usage of alt. Hierarchies in SUBNM Formulas

When creating a custom or dynamic report the SUBNM element selection is pretty much the heart of those. Allowing Hierarchies to be used in the SUBNM element selection can drastically enhance the end user experience by tailoring the visible element...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

db2 luw restore to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync()

db2 luw restore performance is very slow. The problem was identified and recommended solution is to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync() From: David Sciaraffa Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:57 PMTo: R...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Now that Symphony Advanced Edition is properly reporting RSS and VSZ for tasks please update LSF Session Scheduler accounting log to include RSS and VSZ

Currently, the Session Scheduler accounting log always reports VSZ and RSS as Zero. It would be nice to report the actual numbers. I know from my Symphony training that the same was also true with EGO and resolved roughly 3 years ago. It would be ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Log a message at INFO level at the end of an event switch

The only way to know that you are currently at the end of an event switch is to switch to the logdir and see that the temporary event log files have been removed. It would be nice to have a log message at INFO level that informs the administrator ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration