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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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Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Increase company code length from 6 to 9

current controller company code is limited to 6 characters. user has multiple consolidation types in which have used up alot of the alphanumeric combinations as group codes between consolidation types should be different. When it comes to group re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Externalizing RTS while ts states in UTRW

While Shrlevel Change Load does not externalize rts information, we are using ACCESS DB... MODE(STATS) before loading that table to the IDAA box. As we know ACCEL_LOAD_TABLE procedure is doing the same thing, but that command is not working when t...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to confirm command '-Activate Function Level(xxxx)'

There is only one command needed to activate an higher or less (fallback) Function Level. Please provide a possibility like e.g. a WTO that has to be replied to confirm the command.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

AD Group Security Management for Cloud

The ask is not different than what is recently became available for local version of Planning Analytics. It would be beneficial if security could be managed for TM1Web, PaW, etc. through AD rather manual management.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Business Analytics Enterprise/Analytics Content Hub 0 Not under consideration

allow RTM reporting to export excel data

The Reporting tool in cacti gives the option of sending out periodical usage graphs to users. It would be great to also have the option of including raw CSV data in these reports. The workaround is to log into RTM and manually grab the CSV export,...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

SDK - create report view

As an OEM provider, we are integrating some of the Cognos functionality into our product to accommodate consumer users without the need to go to Cognos directly. The Cognos application resides within our iframe. When clicking the 'Create Report Vi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration