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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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Encrypt data in transit to DB

per corporate audit finding connections from application must be encrypted, and connection strings modified to use encryption between application and database.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web - ability to use more than 13 periods for Data Entry forms

Currently, if you try to open a data entry form (in Controller Web) for period 14 or 15, then you get a message “Internal Server Error ... fsid STATUS: 500 ... Unexpected error”. It works OK if you open the same data entry form for period 12 or 13...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

A better Element management approach in Leaves dimension: Hierarchy

Currently when managing ( deleting and rebuilding) Hierarchies, it's fairly common for a C: Element in an Alt Hierarchy to end up inthe Leaves dimensions as an N: element when the hierarchy is made to go away. This causes programmatic problems/err...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export/ Reimport rules RUX files

While there exists the the ability to load a rule from file iun turbo integrator RuleLoadFromFile(Cube, TextFile); It would be nice to be able to be able to EXPORT a rux/rules file to a text file inthe TI process, this is especially true now we ca...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration