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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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Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Review reports in Controller Web, general

In Controller Web it's possible to create Reports in the section "Review". Unfortunately every user has to create his/her own reports. Would be preferable if an admin user could create reports accessible for all users, trough the "Review" selection.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Reduce likelihood of log disk full without increasing log primary

LOAD and CREATE INDEX and idle transactions with log volume can easily cause log disk full situation when other concurrent frequently committing transactions fill up active log space.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered

Cognos 11.0.7 - Ability to hide/edit 'Quick reference' links from Welcome Page.

Links of Quick reference included to the Welcome page are not relevant to our business users - we'd like to be able to hide them or replace with business related references.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Replacement for DB Link to allow sensible database access from OPL

DB Link functionality was removed from version 12.7 and this prevents the sensible accessing of databases from OPL by removing the availability of DBConnection, DBRead, DBUpdate and DBExecute. Whilst there were various issues and bugs with the dat...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Prompts: variable default values

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User needing a simpler reporting experience Description:Reporting users have a need for reports that are easy to use. Prompt controls allow hard-coded default values. Sometimes the users want default values...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

ADB2GEN: generate DDL for hidden ROWID columns

We have several tables that contain LOB columns and thus also a generated rowid column. If an extra column is added, it will be placed at the end. If we now generate DDL for a table with a LOB column via ADB2GEN, then the generated rowid column is...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

As a SPSS developer you need the option to work with "timestamps with milliseconds" since the data records are only uniquely described by the milliseconds in some sources.

When creating a "Data Asset" node, you can select the table and "preview" the content. Here you can see timestamp values with milliseconds (e.g. 1986-07-28T12:45:52.402Z). After the "Data Asset" node is created, the "Preview" shows the timestamp w...
10 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

Improve the usability of the masking function

According to the manual, column masking has incompatibility with some SQL functions that we use a lot. In our environment, we have many abends with SQLCODE = -20478, example: SELECT CASE WHEN ST_EMAIL LIKE 'MARIA%' THEN 'OK' ELSE 'NOT OK' ENDFROM ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

Role based data view permission in any catalog

By default, imported assets in the catalog have the option to see all data and the data profile. For a business user that needs to query just the available data assets this will give to much options to see data. This could be avoided by data acces...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered