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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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Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

dynamic naming of report output

I need an option to send a scheduled report via email and the name of the attached report should contain a dynamically changing date string. E.g.: report name stored in cognos connection is 'sales'. Report is scheduled and a filter is set to 'prev...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

External data log file on Web Imports

Enable similar log file capability on CCR Web as in the client. Ensure that web import log provides a view of all lines imported and not only the rejected items.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add Metadata to Existing Document

This feature will save lots of computation and scripting
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

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

Always Include Edited Report Names in Audit Tables

When auditing is turned on, report names are included in the "COGIPF_RUNREPORT" table of the Audit Database depending on the circumstances of how it is run. The request is that if a report name is known, it should always be included in the audit t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add catalog information when a Compression Dictionary was created

The compression dictionary date created is currently not available to help identify the age of the dictionary. The age would also help to identify dictionaries create before upgrading to the latest release.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Search for elements in rows of a exploration

In explorations in PA Workspace, it is not possible to search for single elements, when the dimension is used in Rows. There you can only select and search for Sets and Levels. It would be helpful to be able to search for elements in every selecti...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration