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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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Read Only PAX

To ensure data entry to a planning model is only allowed through a TM1 Web Application allow a separate read only control so that when users are accessing the same cubes using PAX they can only view the data
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers to enable multiple consolidations batches to run in parallel

Because of the high volume of the consolidation we need to run during the closing periods, it will be very beneficial to have the ability to run multiple consolidations at the same time, in parallel batch jobs. We understand the risk of running co...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Application Performance Dashboard to monitor some parameters and get alerts when approaching critical states

Currently, when the application performance goes down, we only get to know it by the feedback we get from the users, when they have already been hit by slowness or instability accessing the application or running reports/processes within it. In or...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Graphical difference between 2 versions of the same job

currently we are piloting IIS manager to create packages for deploying datastage code into lhigher environments. However there is no way of identifying quickly what the changes were between an old package and a new one.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Profiles ; time between DSNT771/2I messages made variable

Currently when a Profile is triggered (warning or exception) DSNT771/2I are issued every 5 minutes as long as exceptions/warnings are met in the timeframe. When an exception is triggered (maximum connections from IP for instance) the issue will oc...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

report view to store properties like filters, groupings, summaries set from activity menu

This would make it easier to share and communicate results/analysis from reports instead of creating a totally new report.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

facility to hide 'send report by email' option

Please provide facility to hide the 'send report by email' option, so that users will not be able to select this.(this facility was there in Cognos 10). The schedule reports with 'email' option selected goes to waiting state and never get executed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use FSCR information to ommit empty data pages while performing Table Scan (TBSCAN)

ABSTRACT:Table scan over volatile table with large number of empty pages scans all empty pages instead of using FSCR to find pages to be scanned. VERSION INFORMATION:DB2 9.7.FP5 on Linux / DB2 9.7.FP9a on AIX 7.1 / DB2 10.5.FP4 on Linux TECHNICAL ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration