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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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z/OS Batch interface to omegamon

There should be an interface that allows the user to take specific actions via a z/OS job and capture the screen results in a z/OS dataset. This will allow a user to create a standard job to take any action they routinely execute and capture the r...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Cancel Running Report for all Users

It should be possible for all users to cancel their Report running in the background. With R10 the functionality to Suspend a running Report was delivered, but we also need the ability to Cancel their running Reports for all users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better filter factors - use RI for this

The Db2/LUW optimizer has some algorithms that affect the optimization of queries on that platform based on the fact that RI is involved. But, Db2 for Z can calculate very incorrect filter factors that can be much more correct if Db2 enforced RI w...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to limit concurrent queries per user

We would like to have the advanced option to limit the parallel execution for jobs per user.In case user launches a job with many reports inside and select execution in parallel, this single user can overload the servers by taking all resources. T...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"delete cascade" does not work with "not enforced"

The option "not enforced" on a foreign key invalidates an already set "on delete cascade" option, although this is not visible anywhere within the data model or documentation. In my opinion, setting one of these options should prohibit the other o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Show report location/path in the job

It is currently impossible to see the location of the report. So it is difficult to see if you’ve the right report in the job. If you’re not sure, the only way to make it sure is to remove the report in the job and add it again. You need to config...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration