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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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Please show all the groups when we add user into some group, in "catalog" function.

When creating permissions and adding users or user groups to catalog and projects, not all content is displayed. We have to use the search function to find the specific individuals or groups to be added. We hope we can get the feature as it in oth...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Saved window sizes should be sanity-checked when opening

User opens a dataentry form in Excel and clicks to open the Intercompany popup. A window is opened and visible in the taskbar, but the user cannot access it in any way (but it can be closed funny enough). When unticking the 'Save window size' opti...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Allow admin user to monitor & cancel queries being run by other users

Users can initiate queries to fetch data that could result in long running queries which might use a lot of CPU time and affect the overall performance of the system. Only the user who initiated it can cancel the query. Need an enhancement to prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit activities for objects created after trace has been started

Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit objects too, which were created after trace start.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit 'create / alter / drop' for views

Please add view-support for Auditpolicy OBJMAINT, which is missing as of today.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add a column in Audit database where the parent report name can be retrieved for a report view

We have a report for which we have created report views in "My Folder".We want to tie up all the runs of these report views to their parent reports in the audit report. For example, when we create report views with different names and run them, th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: align of widgets

Dear Mr./Mrs. Text in the widget does not start from the edge, but is indented, aligning it with other buttons and objects makes it very difficult. The object can be align with edge of another object. We propose to enable align object also with th...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory , But While having executable permissions audit log files may not be ideal, this is the designed behavior of EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_P...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration