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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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New Authorization for SELECT all tables (DataSelect)

We use the DataAccess Auth to let Select. Insert, Update & Delete on all tables. But we'll appreciate also a new Auth for letting only Select on all tables. That's why we thought about the name DataSelect.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add Edit in Preview Mode Default Action to report properties

Adding a default action of "Edit in preview mode" to report properties would help with lots of users who are using Analysis Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced in C10 get more quickly customized with Cognos Analytics as context filters and metadat...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

CA REST API - Add recursion option to groups and roles endpoints

Currently, when querying for list of groups or roles in CA REST API, the endpoints only return items at the root level of the namespace or the folder defined. If there are subfolders in the namespace or folder, groups/roles in this subfolders are ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Provide a command to display the logstream starting point timestamp

The log scan starting point for a LOGSTREAM is based on all files defined to that LOGSTREAM , that value seem to be also store on the subscription Bookmark. We will like that starting point to be externalized via a command , at this moment that va...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Implement more granularity processing on "CORRELID" to force more parallelism at Q Apply

We have an application with a high criticality and high workload running Q Replication in a bidirectional mode.This application uses CICS transactions, TSO Batch, Java Batch, local zWAS and distributed transactions as well.And because batch jobs c...

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve timestamp format in message and backup logs (ISO-8601)

Streaming messages to log ingestion systems, e.g. Elastic Stack, is a useful way of analysing logs and generating notifications when certain messages are seen. Displaying the messages in the right order when daylight saving switches occur is an is...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration