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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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Translation of functions and operators as per user preferences language

The report functions were translated according to the installation language in Serie 7It would be great to have the same in Cognos Analytics
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Should add checker function while importing BI report from CSV in IMAM

For importing BI Report from CSV using IMAM. If Report name in BI Query section not match to Report name in BI Report section, there are no warning about this. Then, Currently, I need to check it should exactly in csv file. To make sure asset impo...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration

Multi-Client Manager Change All Clients

When we use the multi-client manager, it only changes the classic clients (Designer, Director and Administrator). We would like it to change all clients including IBM InfoSphere Information Server Console and IBM InfoSphere Information Server Mana...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change the Label of a linked data module

If a new data module is created, and an existing data module is added, it comes in as a link. Need the ability to change the labels of the linked-in data module. This would include changing the labels of the linked in data module itself as well as...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration