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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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Make hoover colors changeable when customizing theme

We want to change colors when hoover over buttons in Cognos Analytics: * background-color * foreground-color (= text color) * selectLine And we want to change colors for active buttons (when user has clicked on a button): * background-color is c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Kafka and S3 interfaces

Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for S3 (or other object storage services) Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for Kafka (furthermore, I don't even think Kafka is a supported connection type at all in CP4...
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

DSNTIJRT need option to DISABLE GRANTs

When using DB2/RACF security you might have a requirement from your security auditors, that you don't perform any GRANT at all. This could be a general parameter in DB2OPT or a procedure specific option GRANTTO(NONE) in CFIGIN (both in the DSNTIJR...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Enable Email Notifications for Pipeline Failures

On Datastage 11.7 we are able to send emails when a pipeline fails. In Cloud Datastage we are unable to do so. This causes us extra work to check on job statuses.
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements to OQWT Query Advisor

We use OQWT advisors regularly for both reactive and more common proactive performance review The DSM tool seems to be working fine, although we really need the query and Access path advisors to work. One of my concerns with the advisors (OQWT (DS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Ability to display Notifications upon Logon to the system

If administrators need to inform users of planned outages / send short term warnings that the system needs to go into a maintenance cycle - then Cognos currently does not offer any options to do so.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Embedded report library default configuration into installation default / config utility

Since the embedded report library should be the main source of system reports from Controller 11.0, please make it the default configuration, or possible to configure in Controller Configuration. For example: Updating the CA server URL in Controll...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Requesting Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal to Temporal Table

This RFE/Idea is to request Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal source to Temporal Table target. The existing Q-Replication only supports from Temporal to Temporal tables. For reporting within FTM (Financial Transaction Manager), there is a...

Build automatically Function in Report Studio

In previous version (impromtu) there was an automatic build up of the function/help available at the moment you started the expression. This nice feature is lost in time. would be nice to get this back as many users are struggling with enterring t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release