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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to be able to reload accelerated AND replicated tables and re-enable the acceleration post-recovery.

We end up after a recover with Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS with accelerated and replicated tables coming in to ERROR state which we need to load afterwards before we can re use them causing impact .
4 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
10 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0

Implement usage of DS8000 TCT feature to offload disk copies to TS7700 without CPU usage

Hello, We have seen in an IBM présentation that it's possible to make copie of flashcopy disk to TS7700 without using CPU on the mainframe using the TCT feature of DS8000 and TS7700 Is it possible to have this feature in Recovery Expert to offload...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

add UTF-8 BOM from within Cognos automatically

When a user downloads a CSV and wants to open it in Excel the users normally just double click on the CSV -> a UTF-8 encoded CSV without the BOM "header" shows up incorrect due to special language characters. Adding the BOM to the UTF-8 automat...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration