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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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Monitor archive file location for access problems

When the archive location is not accessible by the cognos dispatcher the problem should be logged and reported to the system administrator.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Pversion in SMC 7.2.x

Include Pversion in SMC 7.2.x
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Planned for future release

Provide filters in 'Included Content' to limit what is updated in the content store

We use SDK to show the saved outputs in our own application. With Cognos 11, the default output version setting is 1. To allow our clients to see the last 5, we run a job that updates the setting to 5 for all content in the tenant root folder. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for ADO.net

In the context of BI tools (SiSense, Power-BI) it is quite frustrating to use Inormix databases as primary data source and it would be valuable to have also ADO.net.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Automated dashboard upgrade in PAW

Due to Log4j we did an update to Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.71. Afterwards we noticed the following message when opening an existing dashboard/book: Your Dashboard has been upgraded. Save now to maintain optimum performance. How can we autom...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Function to sort cube and dimension names once alias /locale name has been applied

We are in a position where we need to add more meaningful aliases to cube names and dimensions. However, when we add the alias the sort order is based on the original name. To ease user consumption of the new names we would like an option to sort ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Provide instrumentation to count the number of IDAA FAILBACKs to DB2

Provide a facility to easily determine the number of queries failed back to DB2 for z/OS from IDAA to support audit requirements.
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Datastage to support SQL 2016

We need to be able to use the ODBC Stage in a Server job with SQL 2016
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration