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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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Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Create logging capabilities for the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics to allow tracking usage of the feature

Create a mechanism in the product to allow administrators the ability to understand which of their customers are currently using the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics 11
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration

DMC: Custom Alerts not bound to monitor profiles

Today, custom alerts are created specific to the monitor profiles. When we wants to edit or view alert definition, we have to 'edit' the monitor profile, and go to Customer alerts. When we wants to view custom alert result, we also have to 'edit' ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Allow to access a database during a pause in a roll forward

During a roll forward, it will be helpful to access the database in read mode in order to identify the point where to open the database. If it is not the desired point, then apply more logs, until find the desired point.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Hiding Visualization in Dashboard when there is no data

Sometimes on selecting a particular filter, a visualization has no data. It will still occupy space on the dashboard and show nothing. It would be great to be able to hide this visualization when it has no data (how lists behave in report when the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration