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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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138 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Scanning the content of uploaded Excel file

This subject has been brought to our attention by our clients, they need to make sure uploaded files are scanned for malicious scripts or codes. We deal with many banks and its part of the audit.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Sparse Index - sub select in where condition

The Where possibility in the Sparse Index is great. To get more flexibility it would be great if you include the possibility to use the sub select in the where condition. This can replace fixed values. Thanks.
14 days ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Submitted

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
14 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review
192 VOTE

Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
131 VOTE

Restrict user sending reports out to anyone but themselves

REFERENCE CASE TS003064034, Higher risk applications leveraging Cognos have desires to restrict users to the point that reports or report links cannot be sent out to any other person or group in TO, CC, or Bcc sections, other than themself. Ther...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration
204 VOTE

Single Sign-On (SSO) in Planning Analytics Workspace

Based on IBM PMR 46964,060,678 - Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation to Planning Analytics Workspace is not supported as of today.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration