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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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Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Display existing Advanced Settings in Manage > Configuration > System fly-out panel

I have used the Advanced Settings in Manage > Configuration > System fly-out panel to set the value for "Portal.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite". However, to view the current setting I need to navigate directly to the underlying "configurati...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to share widgets across User profiles

Provide a way to load widgets into a number of user profiles, just so their personalised dashboard would look the same. Some widgets are useful for a small set of users but not general enough to be shared across the entire dashboard configuration....
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Allow CPP Change on Bulk Transition

We use CPP tags to show which investigator is assigned to a case, even if that investigator was not the last one to transition the case. When an investigator conducts a bulk transition, they are not able to change the CPP tag through the bulk tran...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

CP4D handling of users which are no longer authorized

If a Cloud Pak for Data user is no longer able to logon (removed from a AD group that is mapped to CPD group) then the user record in "Access control" should be marked as deleted. It should no longer be possible to authorize this user to any CPD s...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to capture and reuse (save) the filter selections in dashboards

Hello, we have built dashboards for users so that they can execute them (not a self service authoring of dashbaords but managed dashbaords. The users execute these dashboards and first need to select data perimeter in the filter area in the top wh...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Usability of REORG

When we did a big reorg of 32 billion records we missed some details in dis util functionality:1. how long every phase will take place, RTS knows the amount of records needs to be approx unloaded ...if its been done 1 billion in 2 hours means you ...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have different display options for Investigation Reports, specifically the Lead Time so rather than displaying in days we would want to see this in hours

Currently Lead time shows in days and seeing 0.1 days isn't necessarily useful when we want to know lead time in hours
12 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration