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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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Cascading Delete Enhancement

Currently it is not possible to have different scenarios for the cascading delete functionality. Objects can be excluded from the cascading delete entirely or not. There is no way to decide whether to delete an object depending on different use ca...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit Concurrent Sessions per user in Content Store

Limit the amount of cuncurrent sessions a user can log into the content store. This is a security issue if a user can do so too many times
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

For QMF 13 migration to a different platform -- Please provide export and import features for Scheduled Tasks, User Preferences, QMF Weblinks and other such items in QMF Appdata

We are looking to migrate from QMF 12.2.0.5 to QMF 13.1.1.0 IF1 on Windows environment . To migrate everything which resides in Application Data which includes among other things like Scheduled Tasks, User Preferences, QMF Weblinks etc . There is ...
3 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

For CDC to support the BFILE datatype

Dear Team, As BFILE is unsupported datatype in CDC for Oracle Xstream. We are not able to MAP table with BFILE datatype at source. Even if a source table column is not mapped, the CDC source still needs to understand the datatype of the column to ...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Make it easier to run Consolidations automatically

Our main User Group (Group Consolidation team) are aware of the ability to create automatic Consolidaitions via menu "Consolidation With Status" and "Schedule job...". But they want to create Consolidations on batch/schedule them in a more automat...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

PAfE: TM1RPTROW Function, Option to disable the hidden repeated nested rows

We found multiple case where the consultants and users are not aware of the feature that hides repeated titles for nested rows when the report publish to TM1Web. I think adding a parameter to enable/disable this feature on any level (TM1Web config...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Suppressing RACF messages and security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM Studio

A new DVM server parameter will be added to suppress the RACF log messages and SMF recording for internal DVM calls. This new approach is to redesign the way to handle both the security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM S...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration