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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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Support for Custom URL within File connector HDFS

We need to import data files and folders as well as the file structure to IGC from Atlas HDFS, which is not possible when using Custom url.
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

DataStage MDM Connector - Single Sign On (SSO). Current Client (MHD - Missouri HealthNet Division) has a requirement for SSO on all client applications including DS MDM Connector. Currently this is not support

We are implementing MDM SE 11.6 at our client MHD - Missouri HealthNet Division and they have a business requirement for all client connections use SSO. Currently only Inspector (and now Web Reports) has this capability so we need the DataStage MD...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Is a defect

Show Member Unique Names in Member Tree in dashboards (on hover or as property)

Provide property for every member in the tree in dashboarding using OLAP sources to see the MUN (member unique name). Show it also as popup on hover. Its absolutely crucial to see the mun to uniquely identify the right element as captions are not ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Need lsmake which is supprts Gmake v4.2.1 or later

Current lsmake4 version supports GNU Make 4.0Customer environment uses Gmake v4.2.1 . We need lsmake4 to support Gmake v4.2.1 to enable make through LSF.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Cap the max slots in SIG

We have a requirement where we need to set a cap at the sig level so that no application can go above on the maximum number of slots. Use case===========At the SIG level I have set the SPARK_EGO_SLOTS_MAX: 10 which is the max allowable for any use...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration