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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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Disable selection and copy text in non-interactive reports

We would like that the option of selecting and coping text from non-interactive reports to be disabled. At this moment, there is no option to disable these features and users can copy details from the Cognos reports and use them outside the applic...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

PAW: Customized login error messages for non authorized users

Problem: When setting up PAW to allow for user imports (ENABLE_USER_IMPORT = false configuration setting) the message a user that tries to log on to Planning Analytics license without being set up as a PAW user is not user friendly and looks very...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Management Of Dynamic Cubes

Simplify management of dynamic cubes so that they are easier to set up, administer, and keep running. In particular, make it so that you can publish them with a routing rule, but NOT have to also define them directly on a dispatcher. I'd suggest a...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import and Export the masks, ignores, excludes used in a change

We should be able to create the change in one environment and then export those options from the source and import them into the target to do the same change there.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

db2logscan should be able to read compressed logs

The utility db2logscan, which is now bundled with Db2 is not able to read compressed logs. So with compressed logs we cannot estimate the recommended sync settings for HADR.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Plan Stability - Capture statements from explain

If we want to capture a certain dynamic statement for dynamic plan stability, the statement has to reside in the dynamic statement cache. Than you have to search for the statement id and with the statement íd you're able to capture a certain state...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

There is no control over how calculate items are calculated at a summary level as they are in Report Authoring.

I have a problem with a calculated expression on a Dashboard. It works good on all the rows except the last one, where the total value isn't calculated. I also can't format the column as a percentage
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Isolate Cognos image location from custom images

Currently customer custom images are uploaded to ../webcontent/bi/images. This is the same location as where Cognos specific images are stored. Requesting that the Cognos specific images and customer images be saved to independent locations.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Edit Font Size of Data Labels in a Dashboard

Currently the data labels in a dashboard default to a font size which can be very small and hard for users to read. It would be very helpful to have the ability to change the font size of the data labels in addition to being able to toggle them of...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration