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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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A New Parameter for TM1 URL API for Websheets: specifying sheetname in URL to reference target sheet (not just target book)

With TM1 URL API, in addition to specifying the workbook(excel file name), it would be very beneficial to specify the sheet name that the URL should direct to. This feature could be used in various cases where there are multiple sheets in a book: ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TLS encryption for IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Event Server

We do have a requirement to have TLS encryption to and from Linux replication engines with Access & Event Server versions. We're able to do the encryptions in IIDR Access Server but from Access Server unable to connect IIDR Event server as its...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Allow for an option in the syntax of a (compiled scalar) SQL function to use RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).

Thread reuse and High performance DBATs are dependent on packages being bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). But, there is no provision for the package associated with compiled SQL scalar functions to have RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) as an option. I have been ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to turn off DB2 security

Could we get a ZPARM that allows the deactivation of DB2 security in favor of a security product (ie. RACF). It would be nice if RACF was the ONLY authoritative source for security requests. Currently if a result isn't returned by RACF, DB2 checks...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Give the option to make an index "invisible" to DB2

Sometimes, when I have added and index, I have had some surprises in the optimizer using that index when it should not. I would like a quick way to make the index "invisible" to the optimizer and make it not eligible for access paths until I speci...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Provide the Advanced Drill Functionaility in the Interactive Viewer

By default the interactive viewer allows users to drill up and drill down on any projected items. Please provide the ability to restrict the drill up and drill down entirely and on an individual Query Item basis. This functionality used to be avai...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Controller Web to have all Controller Classic features

Controller Web 104.1 should have all of the features available through Controller classic. Every application is moving towards achieving a web foot print and HTML5 compatibility. Users are loosing confidence on Controller Classic as other vendors ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release