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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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Mask implicit parameters

We would like the mask to honour any specifications included in it regardless as to whether the parameter is included in the DDL. So, for instance, objects may default to DEFINE YES. The MASK may be setup to change all objects to DEFINE NO. We wou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Scope source objects from objects defined in target

It is not possible to scope source objects from the objects defined in the target version or DDL file. In the 'Specify Compare Target' panel there is an option 4 'Target is from the DB2 Catalog and the objects are automatically selected based on t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PAW: Assign colors to elements

It would be great to have the option to centrally assign a color to an element in a dimension. i.e. Actuals are always black, budget always blue, forecast always green. These colors could then show up by default in any charts and maybe also as fon...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

implementation of a “ADMIN ALTER TABLE TB1 INSERT COLUMN C AFTER B” functionality

AHA request for Db2 Administration Tool We are using another vendors DB2 database management solution and have developed a fully automated batch process which propagates DDL changes to many DB2 for z/OS DB2 systems. Our application developers use ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update DB2ZOS SCripts for Tables and Tablespaces to support UTS that is the DB2 Z/OS direction.

Current Cognos Analytics Configuration scripts like tablespace_db2zos.sql , needs to be updated to support UTS. This is the direction of IBM DB2 V12 and higher to use UTS tables and Tablespaces. One Table per one Tablespace. No longer use Shared t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

KPI Distance precision

For the KPI widget, add a way to control the decimal places in the Target distance percentage. Currently only the Target value can be formatted. It is set with 2 decimal places. I want no decimal places.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Bulk unlock records and Bulk cancel checkout of attachments

We have a lot of records where end users have put a lock on records and when a bulk folder move is requested, administrators have to manually go on each record and unlock it before we can perform folder move function on the grid. This can be in th...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration