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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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Ability to dynamically add missing dates to a report that don't exist in the database

When creating reports off a database that does not have a complete date dimension (meaning missing dates in the database). Cognos should be able to fill in the missing dates dynamically. For example:
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map drill-thru support in Workspace for listening widget prompts

We would like to use the Map drill-thru functionality to act as a master prompt for widgets listening in a multi-widget Workspace , whereby the other Workspace widgets use the pass-thru map variable as the Prompt value.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set time restriction on reporting schedules

When scheduling a report, I would like to designate times when end users are not able to schedule their reports.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to export the result of LCM into text file

Client requires to have the ability export Name, Status, DQM enabled, Progress on LCM into text file.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending notifications XA (like) to Kafka

When using a JMS provider you're able to send the notification as part of the XA transaction. For Kafka this is not possible (as per Kafka implementation). Come with a solution so using Kafka for notifications is a usable option (currently not). S...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Customer specific Kafka resource

Kafka is supported by MDM, but you're not able to create and use you own Kafka resource. You now have to use one of the OOTB resources. We want to be able to split the type of data to be send to different Kafka endpoints.
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Nodename Limited to 8 Characters(RIMS)

Appears nodename is limited to 8 characters. The hostname allows for 255 characters. Typically we use server name as nodename and the fully qualified server name with domain as hostname. SF is looking at pushing server names to 15 characters. Is t...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

SQL0437W warning should be eliminated(RIMS)

This customer is receiving the SQL0437W warning when the DB2 optimizer changes strategies, this warning makes applications and scripts fail. He is one of many customers complaining that it makes application and script fail. This warning should not...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure threshold for trigger to automatic resize(RIMS)

Some IT service providers for the financial industry in Germany have a high degree of automation. They are using AUTORESIZE for tablespaces. Unfortunately, the threshold cannot be specified and DB2 only extends the tablespace when it is full. In s...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

automatic maintenance backup -> more backup options(RIMS)

My customer asked how he can configure the automatic maintenance backup in detail (for example PARALLELISM or BUFFERS). It seems that this is NOT possible at the moment. You can only configure some simple options like the target path for example, ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration