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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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Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Require Change to Primary Index When Primary Constraint is Changed in Alter Session

Currently when an alter is performed on the primary constraint for a table, Admin Tool will warn that a corresponding change should also be performed on the primary index. However, you can back out of that warning and generate WSL which does not i...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ViewZeroOut with Undefvals in Rule should not leave Zeroes

In a cube where Zeroes for Entries are needed, the function Undefvals will be used within the Cube Rule. This function works as expected. But when there is the need to clear out all existing values within the cube, usually ViewZeroOut will be used...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TFUI / Dashboard: allow hiding of Worflow Tabs

When users don't have access to Workflow, the Tabs "My Taks", "Subscription Tasks" and "Oversight Tasks" are empty and cause confusion for the users. Please add the capability that these tabs can be disabled for a specific Dashboard in the Dasboar...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Not under consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization

Stacked bar chart visualization is highly used to show absolute dollars. Ability to add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization will allow an effective visual to show period to period changes across the absolute numbers, as an example
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Top 20 high number of connections

Under PERFORMANCE INSIGHT - It would be helpful to have the Top 20 high NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS per location (IP), UserId and Application as we have for DISTRIBUTED THREADS. Furthermore, in DCC (Distributed Connections) it would help a lot to be abl...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0