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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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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

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Reset dashboard to default settings.

Reset dashboard to default settings with e.g. a button. -reset filters in "explorer view" . (not filters done in edit mode) -reset drilldowns with the same button It must be easy for a user to reset a dashboard to default settings in an easy way. ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Define _as_of_date within Dashboard itself

Currently, if you want to change the date of the current day, you have the option to use the "as_of_date" parameter. However, when working with a dashboard and needing to change the current day, you have to navigate to the "My parameter» and modi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Configurable resource requirement of PMML deployment

Since many customers may have a separate data science team for the model building work, while the deployment work will be done by the system/platform admin team. Therefore it would be better for the system admin team to control the resource requir...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition

SQL and XML limits https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0001029.html The maximum size of a LOB object of 4 terrabyte leads to the necessity of partitioning the table just due to this limit. Si...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dataset Date Refreshed property

Hi, can the refreshed date of a dataset be pulled into the data module so it can be displayed in reports or dashboards, so users know how current their data is? Similar to CubeDataUpdatedOn () for olap sources. We'd like to display the last refres...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Require Change to Primary Index When Primary Constraint is Changed in Alter Session

Currently when an alter is performed on the primary constraint for a table, Admin Tool will warn that a corresponding change should also be performed on the primary index. However, you can back out of that warning and generate WSL which does not i...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration