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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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Missing graphical animation indicator for Suspend icon

When Suspending a report there is no graphical animation indication that states if it is working/processing, etc. There should be some indicator implemented for user friendliness.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Show more than one alias in a report

In a report in PAW or PAX it would be helpful to have the possibility to show two alias simultaneously in a report. For example to show both the an ID and the text in two columns in a report.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Internal scheduler should adjust daylight saving time automatically

We have selected time zone GMT + 2 (EET) and scheduled one job using internal scheduler Now it's summer time and time zone changed to GMT+3 EEST but internal scheduler still using GMT + 2 (EET) If we change time zone manually to GMT + 2 (EET) inte...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Search bar in PaFe

A new search bar should be inserted in the PaFe. It is important that the departments can find not only content, but also levels such as month / year, branch or transaction type, etc. Or also hierarchies such as articles.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration