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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard should mask data (Data protection rule)

Dashboards should be mask data based on the data protection rule, Problem: Even if certain data is masked in Preview or Refinery in the analytics project, Dashboard allows all collaborator to show its data. According the manual below, in the Dashb...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Future consideration

LDAP with SSO combining multiple ID field types #cpfieldcsm #cpfield

Bank of America uses LDAP with SSO. They were trying to use user search field as mail, but could not. The support case tech SME responded: Anytime an ID is used, you can not combine multiple ids as it will not serve the purpose. By default it uses...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Provisioning rule required to remove KEY LABELS for test instances

Devops Experience applications are created from a production, or like-production source. In production we use pervasive encryption, and so some tables have a KEY LABEL defined and make use of ICSF and data encryotion. In test environments we do no...
over 1 year ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1

Query Monitor CAE GUI - Add ability to Alert on -904 Resource Unavailable but exclude instances for specific reason codes

QM and CAE have been set up to use the ALERT feature for DB2 SQL error -904 with an email response. Please provide a solution on how to configure the email RESPONSE to NOT send the email if it is for a specific reason code 00C900D1 (Explanation: T...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to Single Select Value Filter/Prompt Drop Down List in Dasboards

want to have a dashboard filter like we can do in reporting, where the user can select only one value in a drop down list prompt. This capability does not exist currently in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Auto scale of Report Output on all supported devices (responsive design in C11)

Create reports should be optimally displayed on each supported end device so that the user does not have to scroll on the end device.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

format ([$END_USER$]) to be available for Workflow Operations

It would be useful to have < format ([$END_USER$]) > be available in a workflow operation. Currently it is only available when using a calculation.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration