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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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DB2 CLI connect to remote database with encrypted password file

The DB2 CLI command line does not provide a way to use an encrypted credentials file to connect remote DB2 databases.The idea is to have a similar solution like the encryped password file for SQL/Q-Replication.The replication tool asnpwd can creat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics backup

Hello, In Cognos Analytics, there is an option to export the entire content store. Using this option, when you import, you only have the option to import the entire content store. Can we have an option to specify the Folder\Reports to import inste...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Provide option to exclude types of activities from Past Activities

It would be very helpful to have a way to exclude certain types of activities (such as Event Studio agent runs) from the "Past Activities" view of Administration (either in the C10 "Cognos Connection" Administration screens and/or the new C11 "Act...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: add governors

Governors should be available in data modules like they are in Framework Manager. For example it is currently not possible to prevent local processing.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: model automation

Our modelers don't want to create their complex/big models completely manually. They need to create models partially by scripts which can be executed over the data module UI, like it is possible in Framework Manager. This possibility should be con...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: add namespaces

Like in Framework Manager namespaces should be available in Data Modules, too. Namespaces are advantageous for bigger models and to be able to move them to another locaction without breaking reports.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: custom relationship expressions

Like in Framework Manager it should be possible to edit relationship expressions. For example when a filter should be added to the relationship expression.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Enable to add custom first names to the underlying language dictionaries

Security organizations would like to analyze reports, in these reports officers often use partial person names (only last names for example). In SPSS Text Analytics there in an extraction option for "Group partial and full person names together", ...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Text Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration