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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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Supress metadata check in ODBC connector

The ODBC connector compares the metadata in DataStage with the metadata in the target system. When there is a mismatch in the metadata, warnings are issued in the DataStage Director log.Please add an option, so this check can be disabled for speci...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically check the "Prompt me" button in CA11

Automatically check the "Prompt me" button in CA11
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSN1COMP to allow more than one input per job step

Currently only one full copy image may be included in each job step //jobname JOB acct information//COMPEST EXEC PGM=DSN1COMP,PARM='FULLCOPY'//STEPLIB DD DSN=prefix.SDSNLOAD,DISP=SHR//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=A//SYSUT1 DD DSN=COPY0...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Copy report without assigning new CAM ID

Our team uses a folder within Team Content (ex. BreakFix) in production to work on fixes and enhancements to existing reports in other Team Content folders (ex. Source) in production. We copy the report from Source folder to BreakFix, make the upd...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing ability to change default options in run as tab and schedule tab

We are missing option to hide/disable/change default options in schedule tab and ran as tab. These can not be modified as of today, in C10 it was possbile to modify those by changing cognos template files. Today they are not part of the interface ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DB2 performance - Hash partition table

On the VLDB - Very Large Database environment.DB2 should support hash partition table to improve performance especially pureScale environment.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists