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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Stop Package invalidation on Enable/Disable System Time

System time has proven to be a very valuable resource, but there are some limitations that make it difficult to administer. One of those limitations is that when system time is enabled or disabled it invalidates any static package accessing the ba...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Need more logging information in Cognos Administration Tool

In the "Past Activities" (IBM Cognos Administration‬ > Status > Past Activities),we can see the status of past scheduled reports.The customer also want to see the following information in this function.-Past all executed reports.(Not only ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Eliminate Cognos Mobile App Single Point of Failure

Re-enable the Cognos Mobile app to communicate with Cognos Analytics through a load balancer (ACE/F5). Reference IBM Case #TS000101959
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source of data is missing within dashboards/stories

When a dashboard is developed and you want to verify that it is pulling back the right data from the right data items/objects - this is impossible to determine. All you have is the data item name - but what happens when that data item name exists ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

432 VLDB - Reorg to Over-ride/ignore parms

We reorg a list of Tablespaces with a template and use STACK=YES. If a tablespace has an underlying LOB the reorg is abended. The requirement is to not have the REORG abend if the parameters are valid for the base table. SUGGESTION: We would like ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expanding limit of Maximum number of columns in a table - Db2

Hi, In Db2, currently we have the limit of 1012 as maximum number of columns in a table, We would request you to exapand this limit. thank you! Regards, Sankar
about 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Provide status indicator when performing LDAP searches

There are many enhancements to improve the way that Cognos searches through LDAP servers but what would be helpful in the interim would be some sort of status indicator that Cognos is working on the search. Right now it just appears as if the page...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Separate user for working with Informix CDC API

Currently the Informix CDC API requires the use of the 'informix' account. We would like the Informix CDC API modified so that it can run in a fully supported fashion as a separate user.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add .Jpeg/.png widget

There is a need for end users to have the ability to add a picture of their choice to Cognos Analytics dashboards. The current methods are restricted to: -url photo location -Custom gallery generated by an administrator Neither of these two opti...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration