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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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Display the number of active users logged on

It would be beneficial if the total number of users logged on to Controller is displayed in the function View Active Users. Today we have to count the number of users manually and it´s quite time consuming if there are more than 150 users logged ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Need to see actual query generated when running a report

The report query generated "Show Generated SQL/MDX" is not the same as the query that is traced on report execution Targeted to Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Db2 for z/OS: Change SETCURRENTVERSION via Reorg

Now, the Repair Utility with option SETCURRENTVERSION has to be used, to change all v0 tables to the highestVersion. Unfortunately this action is not concurrent. It would be better to have the the opportunity to do that with an online reorg.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support CLOB data type 4 GB

DB2 support only 2 GB for CLOB, where as Oracle support 4GB. This creates issue from migrating from Oracle to DB2
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Under review

Audit - Submitted time for a report/job missing

Mail from Cognos:"I have checked with a senior resource, and looked up the tables in the Admin guide for Cognos, andconfirmed that submitted time isn't recorded directly in any of the tables and columns available in Audit Database.The technote I h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate async IFCID 317 with async IFCID 316

When DB2 writes an asynchronous IFCID 316 record, there is no way to obtain the complete SQL statement text because it is no longer in the dynamic statement cache. We need for DB2 to make the SQL statement text available in an asynchrounous IFCID ...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Automated reports emailed to user

Controller currently requires users to login and run reconciliation reports. Users have requested the ability to add some automation to this process so that the reconciliation report is sent by email.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Login PAX - store credentials

PAX - Without setting up SSO we would like to have an option in the pop up login page to save credentials
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Email Notification for Cognos FIx Packs

It would be nice to have an email notifying users when new Fix Packs are available for Cognos Business Intelligence
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration