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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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Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Implement multiple warnings prior to altering the database schema in the system setup section. Additionally, provide the capability to revert to the previous database schema, enabling users to retrieve prior evaluations.

Utility: The significance lies in the fact that modifying the schema currently results in the loss of all prior evaluations, without an option for retrieval. This enhancement aims to safeguard time and projects from potential loss, particularly in...
7 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

Show project asset folders in the code snippet GUI

When I use the Beta Folders feature to create folder hierarchies in my project assets, these folders are not displayed in the code snippets data import GUI in Jupyter Notebook. Without consistency in the view of the organization of assets in my pr...

Reference data sets - product only supports a 2-tier hierarchy. Make it 3-tier for reference files

Having a 3-tier hierarchy for certain columns will help us to have different values/standards across domains even though the few codes and values are same between domains we want to have it's own group.
27 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information