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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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More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Include/exclude fields from bulk update in TFUI & do not force update of controller fields

Please allow for configuration of which fields within an object can be bulk updated. This way, bulk update can honor the fields that are editable in a task view. Please do not force update/selection of controller fields. I understand why you would...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Lists and Crosstabs on a Dashboard

There needs to be more control over font size and cell padding for lists and crosstabs on a dashboard. Being able to control font size and cell padding would help to make the lists and crosstabs more visually appealing.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Change password in Controller Web

The user needs access to Controller Classic to be able to change his/her password as there is no such functionality in Controller Web.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

To provide the option to filter the system objects metadata when audit policy enabled against db2instance user id for db2 luw database in audit captured data.

When native audit with execute category is enabled on db2instance user id , by filter options on system objects schema ex : SYSTOOLS reduces the huge amount of captured data when there is a huge number of tables in an OLTP database continuously up...
5 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Controller Web – IC Reconciliation reports by dimension

I would like to highlight the importance of having the possibility in Controller Web to run IC reports by certain Extended Dimension. We would like to move to the Web version, but without that functionality it does not make sense. Otherwise, we ne...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Potential considerations of ownership and support to Ignore the DB2 re-org(refresh) at table/subscription level

We are facing severe latency issue ( goes up to 3 hours ) in production. Source - mainframe DB2 ( cdc agent installed db2 for zOS) Target : Kafka We have two subscriptions, one is having only cdc/mirroring and other having refresh +mirroring. When...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature.

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature, this would default to index scans rather than a table scan if there are no statistics.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Add DB2 OPTIMIZATION LEVEL to allow more time to be spent in the optimizer for complex queries.

Add a feature similar to DB2 OPTIMIZATION LEVEL to allow more time to be spent in the optimizer for complex queries.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted