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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Multiple file import on CC Web

A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Ensuring Real-time Accuracy in Time Travel Snapshots

In the Time Travel section of the Data Manager interface, the list of snapshots may not always be current and might occasionally require reloading. When multiple individuals are working on the same schema, there's a risk of overlooking changes mad...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 2 Is a defect

Sort visualizations by data not shown on the visualization similar to Report Studio

When using a relational model with a time query subject the the month query item (which contains only the month name) is sorted on the visualizations alphabetically. In Report Studio we are able to specify that the sort is based on our month epoch...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

db2pd -db option not working with catalog-ed database alias

When using the db2pd command it will not function/work with a catalog-ed database alias as shown below:- /u03/db2inst1>db2pd -db csnxhadr -tablespaces Database CSNXHADR not activated on database member 0 or this database name cannot be found in...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Change password in Controller Web

The user needs access to Controller Classic to be able to change his/her password as there is no such functionality in Controller Web.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Feed Q Replication with your own LOAD keywords for automatic load

Recently we had opened a case TS013850174, which could not be addressed correctly b/c it requires an enhancement. Problem was as follows. Due to an error in our change management process, target table had a unique index, which was not present at t...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Better RMF API support in Db2 stats collection

Db2 can extract z/OS - LPAR related info from RMF when ZOSMETRICS ZPARM is enabled. However for this to work in a sysplex environment it is required that EVERY member in the sysplex has the Db2 SDSNLINK library in the linklist , regardless of whet...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration