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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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Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Future consideration

Controller Web Exclude certain IC journals from Reconciliation tab

Elimination of intercompany revenues are often configured as a "one-legged" elimination. That is selling company reports an intercompany revenue. This is then eliminated and also booked against a cost account. The buying company do report an inter...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Create a Graviton ARM build for Linux for cplex

Useful for better performance on AWS compute.
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Db2 Unload from a Cursor

Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Cognos Portlets

Cognos 11 no longer support Portlets that we were able to create in Cognos 10 Portal pages.Most commonly used are the Dashboard "multipage" portlet, the Cognos content "IBM Cognos Navigator" portlet and a variety of the "IBM Cognos Utility" portle...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Action V (Display SQL text) should show SQL in ISPF VIEW session

Presenting the SQL text directly in ISPF VIEW/EDIT will give the user direct access to all the brilliant commands in ISPF VIEW/EDIT including EDIT macros and CUT/PASTE. This will be much faster than first EXPORT and then enter ISPF VIEW/EDIT on th...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release