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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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Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide an option, either to Add or to Replace field value at the time of Bulk Update

This is an enhancement needed for the Bulk Update feature in the Grid View. Currently when we want to add a value to the existing field, it is getting overwritten ( replaced ) . we need a feature in the "bulk update" where by we can either add or ...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Implement failover in Cognos Analytics

Implement failover in Cognos Analytics
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Self-defined templates for new tabs

Creating a new tab in a book, one can choose a template to get defined areas on the dashboard where one can pull objects to and get them maximized/arranged. Can you please offer the possibility to extend the list of templates by self-define ones?
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Export Issue in new UI

When we export the data in standard UI, the fields are ordered as per the order in the details view. However, the same is not applicable for the TFUI. Additionally, if there are any extra fields which are not included on the view also show up if "...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration