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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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Image Gallery Support With SSL

Image gallery works fine with SSL disabled but doesn't work (with PDF and XLS) with SSL enabled. Recommended IBM workaround also doesn't work.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HQ: Add a 'Hot tables" sub-menu in the Performance tab, same for LOCKS

It would be a good thing to have, in HQ's performance sub-menu, a 'Hot tables' (and indexes) section which can be based on the output of onstat -g ppf. The idea is to have a view on the tables that are more active, and eventually click on one tabl...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Replication Tasks (CDC) should be ZIIP offloadable

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a product which off loads workload from z/OS. All Task used for loading data, replicating updates, managing the IDAA box is new workload and should be cost efficient according to Mainframe. This means, that ev...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export a slice to Excel instead of snapshot.

AFAIK the Export to Excel function in PAW creates a snapshot of the Cube Viewer to Excel. Please add the feature to also export a slice to excel. It is possible in Cognos TM1 so I hope it will also be possible in PAW: Cognos TM1: https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable using Cognos viewer in reports which use drill through in CA version 11.2.4.2

It is necessary to add the possibility of using Cognos viewer mode to open the target report when the source report opens in Cognos viewer when using drill trough. This functionality works fine until version 11.1.7.1. When you can use Cognos viewe...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration