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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Authorize multiple custom menu-items (extension) in navigation panel as alternative to portal pages

In Cognos 10 we made use of portal pages a lot. Since these portal pages are not available anymore in Cognos Analytics 11 (at least there not actively supported) we are looking for a good alternative. Our goal is to create a menu structure withi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Move tabs between books in PAW

Sometimes I create a new book when developing and will get carried away creating something. Then I will realize it makes sense to be in an other work book. But I was shocked to find out I cannot move a tab from one workbook to an other workbook. I...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics backup

Hello, In Cognos Analytics, there is an option to export the entire content store. Using this option, when you import, you only have the option to import the entire content store. Can we have an option to specify the Folder\Reports to import inste...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Extended Logging Information for IBM Cognos Administration

Customers would like to be able to directly monitor CPU and Memory Usage of BIBus Processes. It should furthermore be identifiable which user is running the current task and what the tasks resource consumption is. BiBus1 (PID, Assigned to CPU 0, c...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HLOMAINT utility enhancement request

Today, HLOMAINT utility is not designed to find out what utilities are stuck or dead. To clean up those loader utilities, we run a SELECT * against HLOTB.HLOUSTAT table, review each utility, and run the HLOMAINT job to terminate the utilities one ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

add permissions for a group or role in order to see a specific folder when logging in Cognos analytics

For example, folder A contains the reports and the folder B contains the package of the reports. We want that any users who belongs to a specific group or role come directly to folder A when connecting to Cognos via Gateway URI and that they are n...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Materialize a reorg pending change through part-level reorgs

At the moment an AREOR exception state can only be solved by reorganizing the whole (partitioned) tablespace in one go. We want to do the materialization in several sequential steps on a part-level base.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration