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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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Remove entries in the archived report tab that have been deleted from the external repository.

Reports that were deleted form Filenet P8 still display in the the Cognos content store. The date and time the deleted report were run are still viewable from the archived report portal, though an output is not available.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start bufferpool command

New db2 commands to start / reallocate the bufferpool : start bufferpool bp32k ;
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Sybase ASE connectivity via JDBC

Sybase ASE connectivity with Cognos 10.2.1 is through compatible query mode which is a 32bit connection. We would like to know IBM's plan to support JDBC connectivity with Sybase ASE.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DBCS control character handling

EBCDIC Control character x'0E' and x'0F' handling is different in DB2 for z/OS and IDAA. IDAA drops the control character at any case while DB2 returns error in some cases
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Wrap tables

Create a new type of table based on the size or on the time.create table packagevent (.... ) with history based 1 year on event_timestamp / 1Gb. It could be an ITC table. The oldest data / extent are automatically reused when new data is added and...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Clicking CANCEL on "Report is Running" popup should not return to Public Folder, Should Stay in Prompt Page

Include Functionality Change in how Report running process is currently executed in Cognos BI. When the report has Multiple Prompts in 1 Prompt Screen and 1 of them is cascaded with the other, then there are situations when 1st Prompt selection ru...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg timeout parameter

Set a new parameter to specify a reorg timeout limit.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration