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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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Setting to set color transparency

It would be nice to have a setting that compute the color transparency automatically instead of having to manually computing it then entering the RGB values specific to the transparency. It could induce error and not following company standards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Tabular Data

Query Explorer -> Right click queryPlease reverse the order of 'Rename Query' and 'View Tabular Data' Also, if don't chose an option and move the cursor to another query then right click again. Only 'Rename Query' and 'View Tabular Data' pops u...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support of the new data type NUMERIC from Teradata

Creating a nickname to a teradata server ends with error: SQL3324N Column "xxxx" has a type of "N " which is not recognized. Target column type NUMERIC is not recognized
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Group currency values in intercompany matching report for P&L accounts

Please can IC report transactions from the previous period be loaded with the result that D-coded accounts are translated using the D-rate on the period value and then added to the translated previous YTD value when running the intercompany matchi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Direct entry of "Contribution Version" when layouting reports

When a report in Cognos Controller is being created there is the possibilty to insert the "Contribution Version" either in the row or the column definition. The entry of the "Contribution Version" has to be done via a dropdown menu. There is no di...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Optimization profile mimic

add a new option to the explain tool to create an xml document containing the optimization guidelines matching the access path
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

bsub should use pipes for standard file descriptors

Details are in the referenced PMR, but the summary is that since bsub uses sockets instead of files for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR certain types of submissions that access /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr will fail to execute properly when ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add an optional control to stop HADR when non-logged operation occurred on primary

Currently, if there were non-logged operation such as loading data into a table on HADR primary, the log replay will continue on standby and the HADR state is still peer. But that table on standby can't be accessed. The application may not work on...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Fetching values into empty customized reports in Excel without data entry

When a report that was customized in Excel via the Report-Function with Column and Row definitions is opened as an empty Report in Excel, the system tries to fetch data. This leads to an extended lead time for opening reports. There is no addition...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Disable System Setting "Delete Journal Enties"

Disable System Setting "Delete Journal Enties" We were able to disable the delete button, but after that the users can not further adjust journal entries. And we came to know that : If you want to stop users deleting journals then they will be clo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration