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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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index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

DSN1COPY support for XML data in all cases

DSN1COPY does not currently supports XML table restore on another DB2 subsystem or in the case of a dropped XML tablespace. This lack can be easily bypassed by an UNLOAD / RELOAD in the case of a copy to another DB2 subsystem. But in the event of ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

select ... from final table ( update table for portion of business time from ... )

the problem is that an update table for portition of business time can effect more than 1 row and if this is made in a bitemporal environment the System Start is set to the first change timestamp. But you didn't know the exact time you have to rea...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RI support for tables with mixed encoding schemes

MR012908405 GGDB208012 GGDB207014
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Move functionality to also move children

When selecting an object, a risk for example, and using the MOVE button on the grid view to move the risk to a different folder, it would be nice to be able to have the option to move its children ( in this case controls) to that same folder as we...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration