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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.

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Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Poor management of CDC parser on Postgresql timestamp format

Cf CASE TS009333426 PostgreSQL supports the full set of SQL date and time types , shown in this table Source : https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-datetime.html Name Storage Size Description Low Value High Value Resolution timestamp [ ( p ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable kerberos/certificate authentication for Cognos content store in z/OS DB2

When building Cognos content store in z/OS DB2, we need to provide id/password on Cognos configuration portal for DB2 connections. We don't have known password for most IDs in z/OS due to security policy and most DB2 applications have supported Ke...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to use expressions or functions in conditional layout for page dependent values.

Add the ability to include the list header only on the first page of the report and not have it repeating across all pages. The conditional statements work fine when in interactive HTML but not in batch (PDF, HTML etc).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding newly added data sources to data modules automatically

We're developing a data collaboration platform. New data sources in various data formats such as CSV, database table or ESRI map will be uploaded to the platform. In this context, data modules should update itself automatically.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Track a local directory duing job execution and report utilization details in job rusage

We would like to be able to, at submission time, specify a local directory that we would like to have LSF monitor the total size and files in and report in the Jobs RUSAGE periodically. This directory will be separate from the execCwd or the cwd. ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Overlap of Left and right view of a page in SDU training

While tranining the SDU , a page is shown on left side with actual text and right side with boxes placed instead of text and coloured by appropriate fields but initially the color of text all over. In a dense document, it becomes difficult for use...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target Currently each table in the subscription maps and publishes to its respective target topic. This is not a short come of the tool, this is mainly due to the way application files are defined ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration