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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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Watch new versions - not available

The capability "Watch new versions" for saved outputs is not available (as it was in C10). The new C11 function "Subscribe" is not an adequate replacement, because the user should not create an own schedule.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove IIS Rewrites from Configuration

Please remove IIS rewrite rules as part of the installation.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS: Support for IMS DB (Insert) where segments have exit routines with DB2 statements

Opitm zOS - We have IMS DBs of which some segments have exit routines that have DB2 statements - Purpose of these exit routines is to keep IMS segment data in sync with DB2 tables (when a Insert / Update / Delete happens on a record in the IMS seg...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Category updates not reflected in Audit History

Currently Item audit history table only keeps changed attributes information, for example old value/new value of attributes. Category mapping information are not captured. This feature is not there in the product. Users update categories in workfl...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add support for native Aziure Databases - Cosmos

Many companies have slowly implemented a hybrid cloud architecture. I am the lead TDM engineer at GM and we have no solution for native azure db's - Cosmo
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Mapbox maps with 1 point on it zoom past that point to max zoomlevel

When a Mapbox map ends up showing only 1 Point (perhaps through active filters), the autozoom of the widget zooms to the max zoom level, a few kilometers west of the Point that should be visible. (at least in SA)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Write type 99 records to a different log stream

The Type 99 records are not needed for IMS database integrity andtheir processing consumes a large amount of I/O bandwidth on thecritical OLDS log stream. It would be useful to split this I/O to a differentlog stream (along with copies of the nece...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Prevent defined files from being deleted during installation

Request for an configurable options of files and folders, that are not deleted during installation or upgrade situation.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration