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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Framework Manager should permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures

the current Framework Manager 11.1.1 does not permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures without need for prompts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manual HADR takeover should fail, if standby is in bad shape

Manual HADR takeover without FORCE should fail, if standby is in good shape.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Sort the exceptions in descending order based on Exception Date in DQEC

Please help us to sort the exceptions in descending order while display the exceptions in IBM IIS 11.7 DQEC.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Support IE 11 on touch sensitive devices (MSGesture)

In IE11 on any touch sensitive device, Microsoft created new events to handle things like mouse movement, finger swipes, and light pen interactions. Prior to IE 11, these were all considered Mouse events, however in IE11 Microsoft changed their co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Simplify visualization libraries

Today in CA we have legacy visualization, 11.0 visualization, 11.1 visualizations and maybe soon 11.2 visualization. All my clients find it cumbersome, incomprehensible and incoherent. I think it's necessary to set up the old library conversions t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release