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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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Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

Quick Search should trigger a data refresh

Please refer to case TS014307927 for details. Quick Search on all DMC views does not enforces a new query to either the repository or to the monitored DB. It only searches on pre-loaded data in the browser , which is not a complete set of data. Fo...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Ability to have online messages to detail why go-lives are in queue and pending processing.

Product and Tech support teams would have more visibility with understanding why a go-live is in queue. Specifically, support staff would be able to differentiate deadlock vs BAU processing situations. This would assist staff with determining if a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Add support for data retention for OpenPages

EU financial regulators now have stringent requirements around data retention and other regulators elsewhere are likely to follow soon. Such data retention requirements specify that certain customer/seller data must be deleted after a period of ti...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Under review

Backups to use temp dbspaces with most closlely matching page size.

For backups store the before images it temporary dbspaces which most closely match the pagesize of the dbspace being backed up. Presumably this would be more efficent. E.g. If backing up a 16k dbspace prefer putting before images in a 16k,8k or 4k...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Externalize IDAA internal configuration / tuning parameters visible by customer

Wells Fargo’s Audit Department requires monitoring of configuration parameters. At least monthly (in Database Operation case its daily), Enterprise Compute Services (ECS) Drift Identification Automation compares deployed configuration data to the ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Using QR Code for login in Mobile App with SSL or SSO

Lots of our customers using SSL and SSO for Cognos Analytics On Prem. Since Cognos Version 11.2.4 they also more and more use the Mobile App for consuming Dashboards. The point is that they currently have to enter the Dispatcher URL for connecting...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration