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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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Add possibility to exclude dataset output in backup process

This functionality provides the possibility to exclude dataset output from the backup process.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use OPTHINT for package with version

Db2 uses the following PLAN_TABLE columns when matching rows that specify access paths to SQL statements: QUERYNO , APPLNAME , PROGNAME , VERSION , COLLID , OPTHINT If I use PKGVERSION(AUTO) during precompile I need to change my OPTHINT every time...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow wallets for mTLS to be accessed from Cloud Object Storage

As cloud-based datasources become the norm, security is becoming stronger by default. As an example, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), supports Mutual TLS (mTLS) via wallet-based security as a default mechanism. Cognos Analytics on Cloud (On...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Google BiqQuery Functions to Cognos Analytics

Hi IBM, We are using Google BigQuery as one of the database sources to connect to Cognos Analytics on Cloud and using the packages to build reports and dashboards. Currently, we have to manually type in the Google BigQuery functions in the Model, ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 4 Not under consideration

Business Rules Server's "Distribution Done" message should include success/failure information

In support case TS007497792 (RTP-1184 PERF Gateway Server 1Q1 has not been processing any transactions), we had a problem resulting from failures in the workflow activation for one of our 4 gateway servers. Because we scanned for the final message...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Not under consideration

Improper Validation of Session Capabilities

An application is vulnerable to improper validation of session capabilities. Changes regarding the permissions within the application aren’t applied to existing sessions immediately. This can be used by an attacker to regain previous permissions. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Password Policy configuration for Exports

At the content export in Cognos Administration one can protect the content of the compressed file with a password length of at least 8 characters. As company policies are changing and sometimes more demanding on password policy some configuration ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration