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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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Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Host name Control in datastore to prevent reverse DNS lookups

Using Access Server, we have datastores that connect via IP and every time it try’s connect it does a DNS reverse lookup and times out. The datastore accepts IP and hostname, we need a way to stop the DNS reverse lookup for the connection.
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update for 11.7.1.1

We have received an email from Snowflake that any Snowflake client driver versions lower than the following will reach the end of support as of November 1st, 2024, according to Snowflake Support policy: • Snowflake SnowSQL 1.2.24 • Snowflake Pytho...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

PAW | Advanced Synchronization | Respect Sorting when utilizing Member and Descendents from a Selector List

The Selector List Sort Order does not reflect in the MDX generated within a synchronized view utilizing the advanced synchronization feature. For example, we've built a selector list containing only Departments and we have created an advanced sync...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow Kerberos authentication with connectors.

We have been informed the only long term solution for a single ID within our network to get access to all our PostgreSQL databases is to make use of Kerberos. We have security constraints in place that prevent company wide access within our networ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Remove email notification when workflows complete "Run in background"

We have custom actions on workflow steps which take a while for it to complete, because of this when a user triggers the action step, they are greeted with a loading screen. A way to mitigate this is to set the step to "Run In Background" so that ...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Allow Default Settings on a Workbook View to be defined as a System Setting

The New Experience interface (Release 78) of Planning Analytics allows the Overview section to be configured to display Hierarchy Names, Iconography, Context Information and Section Headers. By default only Iconography is set to display. Users fin...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration