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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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 10, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable.

A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purpose of storing a text/data field of variable and potentially large size. That is, it can be empty, 100 byte, 1000 bytes, 100.000 bytes. The new and more efficient DQM mode should therefore never CAST such fields to a fixed size, as this defeats the purpose.

There should be also in IBM Cognos a container type for long text or data (image) content. And BLOB/CLOB should always be correctly handled and moved into this container type, without the need of a CAST.

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