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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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Change a package associated to a report

In 10.2.2 and before, you could click on the report properties and update the package a report points to. In Cognos 11, it appears you cannot do that, unless you load the classic view (Cognos Connection). This makes moving or copying multiple item...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Allow for UNLOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be compatible wen executing on the same partition

We are running very busy environmenet with IDAA being frequently refreshed by loader with increamnts of inserted records. In addition, we are using the DB2 automated housekeeping approach with the DSNACCOX stored proc implmentation to manage and t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

WKC - Metadata Import of Cognos Assets should also include calculations and expressions performed in Cognos

Currently just the data flow through the imported Cognos artifacts is visible in Information Asset View and Data Lineage. As there is also business logic and KPI calculation in Cognos this information is also important for the Business User analyz...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add functionality to setup a data module in a way that can be used by multiple clients, each of them having access to a different database

The data module works only for one of the connections, the one that was selected at the moment it is saved. We need to be prompted for the connection instead of saving the connection along with the data module. We need a way to setup a data module...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Preventing manual Stop/Start of a workfile after space issue (doc updated)

We had a space allocation failure in DSNDB07. After the storage failure has been relieved one of our batch job was crashing with reason 00D70011 as the DSNDB07 extend was flagged by DB2 WACTPUNAV bit as not usable. We finally had to manually Stop/...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Ability to migrate/export "Applications" and "Plans" in lifecycle management

Should be able to select Applications and Plans as objects to export or migrate in Planning Analytics Workspace - Lifecycle Management. Currently you can only export books and views.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Redshift Load from the S3 connector

We at NYL planning to move from On Prem to Cloud environment. We did a multiple testings with the help of IBM Support team and noticed that the Redshift loads using Redshift connector/JDBC connector as dead slow. This will impact all of our Target...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Can't bring existing objects into workflows

We can see how to remove objects from workflows, but there is no way to bring existing objects into their correct workflow in bulk. This is critical to us adopting workflows, because when a user sees a list of tasks they must complete, we must ens...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered