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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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Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable drop of more than one foreign key at a time

I want to drop 2 foreign keys on a table. I type the 'AL' line command next to the table and go to panel ADB21TA. I choose DROP FOREIGN KEY and go to panel ADB21TAH. I put a '?' in the Constraint field and go to panel ADB21TRI. In my example I hav...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Job name not available from set properties of job

In cognos 11.0.10 Environments users are not able to see the job name from set properties. In legacy view user was able to see the job name from job properties.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance display utility command

It would be useful to be able to determine if a utility (such as REORG) is safe to terminate w/o forcing a recovery. I'd like to see if it's using a shrlevel other than NONE.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector support for other fields other then Id and External ID fields of Reference Objects for Load Operations

Salesforce Connector support for other fields other then Id and External ID fields of Reference Objects for Load Operations
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow Admin Users to put Planning Analytics in Single Mode

In some cases, when we would like to perform some maintenance or run specific processes with higher priority (such as an FAP Initial Publish), we would like to prevent users from loging into the application, so putting it into Single Mode would be...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow FAP to pass Journal Header info over from Controller to Planning Analytics

In order to allow the Finance Planning and Analysis team to have a better view on Journal information in Planning Analytics, it would be best to allow FAP to pass the Journal's header information over from Controller to PA.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Get More Control over Implicitly Created Tables

MR0125102748 GGDB209017Enhance the CREATE DATABASE statement with ne option comparable the the Bufferpool-clauses
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration