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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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Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Auto Hiearchy for Date Fields

In Dashboards Datefields are often used for drill down functionality. In the moment you have to define manually for every date-field in a datamodule or directly in the dashboard (if you use a Framework Manager Model) a hiearchy.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if you...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize "My schedules and subscriptions" view

Many of our Cognos Analytics users complain that they are not able to customize the view of “My schedules and subscriptions” in Cognos Analytics. They would like to change the width of “Name” column and shrink unnecessary wide columns like “Priori...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA AOT support

We have data stage jobs (parallel) jobs, and applications that use Business Objects, that would like to utilize AOTs,Currently, AOTs are qualified by a schema name and a table name. This effectively prevents us deploying AOTs in data stage as the ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Read Only User Group/Role should not allow for use of the export feature

Read only users at CTC of Match360 should only be able to explore and read what exists in Match360, and given the sensitivity of the data, they should never be allowed to export any of the data to a local computer. This is a large risk to the firm...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Projects Id needs to be deleted from catalog assets when the project is removed.

Project name is not captured in the connections table whereas project ID is available. If the project name is deleted, then related project id also should be removed from the Catalog assets.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration