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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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Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DB2 script to remove a version of an FTM Application from the FTM database

That DB2 script could be useful for many purposes. Main reason here is: customer is trying to implement a zero-downtime deployment solution and the solution they are thinking will deploy a new version of the FTM Application into FTM Database and n...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Under review

Filter widgets on all tabs when interacting with widget

If our dashboard has several tabs, our users expect the widgets on the other tabs to filter if they are interacting with a widget on a different tab. This is how it works in other tools they use.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow IET changes to be reflected in System Audit Log

Currently, in System Audit Log the user can view executed changes in Investment Elimination Template (IET) only in function 'Consolidation with Status'=>Acquisition Elimination. There is no other function in System Audit Log which allows to sel...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

PAW - LCM - Migrate Folder Structure and Permissions

Currently, the PAW Lifecycle Management tool can migrate objects such as books, but it can't migrate the folder structure nor the permissions of folders and books. For example, when I'd like to deploy a module (group of books and folders, e.g., Se...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

No Implicit Runstats when running Reorg that materializes pending DDL

When a REORG is run to materialize a pending DDL change, the REORG enforces an inline statistics (RUNSTATS) even though no statistics keywork is added to the REORG statement/card. it defaults to TABLE(ALL) INDEX(ALL). This obviously can impact acc...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DBT Semantic layer integration

Universal semantic layer for all analytics tools, including Cognos Analytics. If Cognos wants to stay relevant, and not replaced by alternative products, please embrace the modern stack and a universal semantic layer. Many years ago, it was at mul...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Logical grouping of objects in workbench

When you start of have lots of dimensions/cubes/processes, it would be nice to be able to group them in the modelling workbench pane.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration