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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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Add the LogviewV2 utility back in CA 11.x to read server logs

Can't seem to find a CA equivalent to the logviewV2 utility that was bundled with Cognos 10.X. My understanding is that log viewer was an internal application that wasn't meant to be integrated into Cognos. It was a tool for IBM dev/support that w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC Reduce Authorities required

The IIDR Oracle Xstream agent requires high levels of db authorities like create any table, drop any table - these are not required when the agent is only being used as a source and cause problems with our security guidelines and policiesWe would ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Validation Field [$System Fields:Date Last Modified$]

I would like to create a calculation validation that uses Date Last Modified but it's not an available field. The use case is being able to reference this date to auto set a status to "Dormant" based off this date.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for SQL, DDL, DML syntax checking

Add enhancement to syntax check SQL, DDL, DML before execution. Recently attended presentation of Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS and it has a 'Smart Editor' which performed these checks. I asked about it and was told it is using macros from the DB...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow 3 different options for statement concentration.

We would like 3 options for statement concentration. It is importantthat all three options are available. 1. No concentration. (already exists) 2. Concentrate queries that have no parameter markers (Current DB2 concentration) 3. Concentrate querie...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

improve documentation about CONDBAT (& MDBAT) and how to watch the limit being approached

The IBM provided documentation for important ZPARM of CONDBAT and MDBAT is a bit vague on exactly what to watch for these important limits. The documentation could be improved. I reviewed the documentation for DISPLAY DDF command https://www.ibm.c...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Request to implement Auto Map functionality on Output in Hierarchical Stage

I'm using the Hierarchical Data stage to pull data via a REST API and then feed that through a JSON_Parser stage and finally map it to the output columns on the Output tab. I know in the DataStage thick client there was an option to use the Auto M...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 4

Read-only users for CP4DS and NPS Consoles

We need to give access to the CP4D and NPS consoles to production teams for the monitoring and diagnosis of the systems, without them being able to make any configuration changes. For this, it would be necessary to be able to create non-administr...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Planned for future release