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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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IBM OpenPages Cognos Framework is missing the IS_LOCKED field

The OpenPages Cognos reporting framework is supposed to include a field called 'IS_LOCKED' for each object. This field has a value of 0 if unlocked and 1 if locked. It is NOT present in the generated framework. The field is in the underlying RV...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Migrate GLOBALS (GLOBALU) using a batch interface

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about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Batch interface to gather statistics, same as ISPF panels

We would like to be able to gather stats using a batch interface. The stats we are interested in are the C.18.1/2, c.12 and the active users
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Column heading including name / Planning Analytics Workspace

Client has time dimension on the row, but the column heading does not reflect the name. The client would like the column heading to reflect what is in the rows.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow querying without expansion

Today, when expansions are defined for a collection, the expansions are always applied. However, there are some cases where one would like to submit a query without having it expanded, like a "do not expand" flag. A concrete case is the following:...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration