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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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bhosts command (add. job info request)

Customer understands bhosts and is using it well.And bhosts is definitely a good command for resource monitoring.However, it would be nice to show more job information submitted. For example,If you use the bhosts command, you can check the job's s...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Save report output to Oracle Cloud object storage.

This functionality is working for AWS but not working for Oracle Cloud which we use to host Cognos Analytics. We created support ticket TS003696659 to troubleshoot this issue. Oracle Cloud should be supported along with AWS and Azure.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Apply & retain formatting to exploration views cell in Server format mode

In Exploration view and with server formats turned on (not excel formats), users want to be able to highlight or reformat a cell or cells and then for PAX to keep that cell intersection during navigation of the exploration view. Currently formatti...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

ADBTEP2 - Provide an SQL ERROR LIMIT' parameter (similar to DSNTEP2/MAXERRORS)

We have recently started to use ADBTEP2 for its added benefits. When used as a dynamic SQL processor (i.e. in lieu of DSNTEP2, for instance), the names of 4 of the 5 instream parameter names and format are identical to those found in DSNTEP2. The ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide direct access for Planning Analytics Local to Cognos Analytics packages and Data Modules

Please provide method for direct access for Planning Analytics to Cognos Analytics Data Modules, Data Sets and BI Packages. It used to be available through TM1 Package Connector, which is no longer supported. Last version of TM1 Package Connector ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visual Studio Add-Ins - Server Explorer - Data Connections - Equivalent Functionality to IBM Data Studio

Our shop is primarily .NET development and our application developers do much of the creation and management of database objects on DB2 z/OS (and soon Db2 - fka LUW). The VSAI Server Explorer feature is lacking much of the functionality of IBM Dat...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Change font size and font colour in the Web Chat integration for WA

While working on a chatbot, using the web chat integration, I found that there's limited things one can customize to change the look and feel of a chatbot. The function updateCSSVariables only admits very few CSS variables. I think that font size ...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration