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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give us...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Change DSNHDECP from being hard coded

Db2 Admin has the name DSNHDECP hard coded into the product and this may cause problems for MetLife – they had the same problem with Optim products and had to get it changed. So the change need is to make the naming of DSNHDECP a variable at insta...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Management Console Performance Metrics Graph Viewing - display metrics for selected point in time in the graph

When viewing the performance metrics graphs, it would be very helpful if when you use the mouse to point to a specific point in time on a line in the graph, that a box display which shows the values for that specific point in time for the metric r...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Collection of Performance Metrics at Started Task/Process startup

Today, in order to collect performance metrics about the execution of the CDC tasks/processes, it is necessary to start the subscription, and after starting the subscription you then need to specify which metrics you want to collect for EACH subsc...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix Sample Datasources for Cognos 11 Samples

Cognos Analytics / 11 currently only provides sample data for SQLServer, DB2 and Oracle. Since the ready-to-run version of CA runs its Content Store in an Informix Database it would be useful to be able to run the samples in it as well.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refocus Prompt Page to Selected Prompt control after Page Reloads

When you click on a reprompt button on a prompt page with multiple prompts, the user is taken back to the first prompt on the page.This behavior is also seen with search and select prompts. Can the product behavior be modified to retain the focus ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Watson to filter spam from Website

Seriously, its embarassing to have this idea site with xanax spam on it.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Visa Technical Security Requirements Findings - Need Fix ASAP

There are Technical Security Requirements at Visa. We need to implement the following rules within the DB2 database to fix the findings. Please involve the DB2 DBA team from your side and confirm if IBM openpages application is certified to run af...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 5 Not under consideration