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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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ENH-Ability to set dynamic default prompt value

Client wishes to be able to set a dynamical default selection for his prompts. For Example a Month prompt that by default displays the current month.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

produce a report in XML and CSV format with more than one query

The Report Studio user guide states : You can produce a report in HTML PDF CSV various Excel formats and XML. You cannot produce a report in CSV or XML format if you have more than one query defined in the report unless the additional queries are ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration

System Audit log - Failed login attempts

The idea would be to add functionality to record failed login attempts in the system audit log in Cognos Controller. It would be beneficial to have this shown in the audit log because this would strengthen the security of the application and the p...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Remove the physical storage limitations on Innovator-C

At release of Informix Innovator-C Edition 11.70 xc5, a large number of functionality has been withdrawn ( ER and more), as well as new ressource limitations have been implemented or inreased, such as limitation to 1 CPU vp for instance. We think ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded.

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded. Recently this was partially addressed with APAR# PI71965; however, this APAR only checks if the record is greater than the maxim...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration