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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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Context Sensitive help missing

When clicking on "Help" in Cognos 10.2.2 you were directed to a context specific help. For example, when viewing the properties of a folder, you were directed to the Administration and Security Guide section "Properties of elements".In Cognos 11 y...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Row Level Access Control support

Db2 for z/OS customers are using multilevel security for business needs and regulatory reasons. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=granularity-creating-tables-multilevel-security If a table is defined with a AS SECURITY LABEL, this t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED column in plan table

MR0218096957 GGDB208030Mark all rows of a statement in the plan_table with an Y in a new column VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED when a dependency to a virtual index exists.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open Cursor with Hold

MR021809690 GGDB208033Add a new thread based accounting-class-2- and a package based accounting-class-7 counter ????????????????????????OPEN CURSOR WITH HOLD???????????????????????? which will be incremented whenever a OPEN statement with option H...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Message WareHouse Power Search of SWIFT Messages (MT and MX)

Currently COGNOS is used to query MT and MX messages. For MT there is a free text search, but the same is not made available for MX messages. In addition, general query performance is slow. Note that I have look at other SWIFT products, and they a...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple cache states for virtual dynamic cubes

Current design allows two cache states per dynamic cube, ie. to allow reports to be successfully executed, during a member cache refresh. With virtual cube this exposes a errornous situation, when the member cache of both base cubes are refreshed ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add type of execution in activities view

Currently there is no easy way to differentiate between different kind of executions in Cognos in activities view and my schedules and subscriptions view. There are the following types of executions: page preview run from Report Authoring run ad h...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Planned for future release