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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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Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

View Active Advanced Settings

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the manage flyout, you must input the parameter, such as ContentApps.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite, and input a value, for example True. Once you have implemented this feature the only way to see ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Change password in Controller Web

The user needs access to Controller Classic to be able to change his/her password as there is no such functionality in Controller Web.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Use of Adobe Flash in OAT is a security problem, please migrate to HTML5

OAT makes heavy use of Adobe Flash. Flash is an increasing security problem and not supported on all client platforms. HTML 5 is an alternative and should be used instead.
over 8 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Copy Streams

When using SPSS Modeler, data scientists may want to use existing streams as a base, or just copy them as backups. This is not possible (SPSS Modeler in CP4D), the only workaround is to export to local str-file and create a new Stream using the ex...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Remove The Need To REORG A Table Up On Performing Table Alter/REORG Recommended Operations

Today when we perform certain operations aka REORG recommended operations against a table like adding columns, dropping columns, changing datatype of a column, altering NULLABILITY of a column etc. the table will be put in a state called REORG pen...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration