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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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Automate logon on the cloud

There is currently no way to automate the logon to the cloud in the API for PAx. Therefore, I cannot fully automate the generation and dissemination of Excel reports that use Planning Analytics On-Demand. It has to be a person's daily task to open...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When exporting to PDF we have no control on the margins and page breaks - please add this feature

When exporting to PDF we have no control on the margins and page breaks - please add this feature
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Plan Stability - Option to restabilize an invalidated query missing

We've got several SQL queries stabilized with dynamic plan stability. Reason is to prevent them from getting a bad accesspath. After operations like "ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE PARTITION..." the query is flagged to valid N in SYSIBM.SYSDYNQRY. Than we...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

We would like to have FTM in High Availability

In an HA environment with 2 FTM SWIFT nodes there is a restriction to have a single copy of the FTM SWIFT code in a shared library /usr/lpp/IBM/ftmswift/v300, visible from both LPARs
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customization-option of books in PAW

PAW doesn't provide option for books external customization. When we have many books, it is hard to find proper on start page of PAW- all looks like the same. Customers complain about home page of PAW- there is no option to customize nor books ref...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alerts for DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError at the object level

We would like to see if it would be possible to get alerts at the object level for the event types DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError. Right now, this is possible to do for getpage activity which is very helpful. A workaround we wou...
12 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration