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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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CONTROL THE DEFAULT DELIVERY OPTIONS WHEN RUN WITH OPTIONS > SEND REPORT VIA EMAIL.

Client would like to control which users have the ability to send emails. Example: "Run with Advanced Options" -> "Run in Background"Client only wants certain users with ability to send emails. Currently, we can hide email option in Select deli...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DUO with OpenID

Client would like to use DUO 2 Factor Authentication with Cognos Analytics.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill Through to Database Table - Excel Export

A Drill-Through in PAW to a database table will open a window where the user can export the data to a CSV file. An English user can open this file with Excel and all columns will end up in the right place. A non-English customer will need to conve...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Correctly calculate measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes.

IBM Cognos 10.2.2, Dynamic Cubes have a data integrity issue whereby they do not correctly compute measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes. A warning is issued in Cube Designer. The consequence is that if business users bu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IFI READS support for IFCID 105

IFCID 105 contains information needed to map DBID/OBID values to object names. This information is produced on the STATS interval and contains mapping for EVERY object currently open to DB2. On large systems, thousands of IFCID 105 records may be ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS: Support for IMS DB (Insert) where segments have exit routines with DB2 statements

Opitm zOS - We have IMS DBs of which some segments have exit routines that have DB2 statements - Purpose of these exit routines is to keep IMS segment data in sync with DB2 tables (when a Insert / Update / Delete happens on a record in the IMS seg...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Category updates not reflected in Audit History

Currently Item audit history table only keeps changed attributes information, for example old value/new value of attributes. Category mapping information are not captured. This feature is not there in the product. Users update categories in workfl...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration