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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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Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get sequence's NEXTCACHEREFRESHVALUE from cache.

Please see the attached word document and as our development teams are trying to retrieve the NEXTCACHEREFESHVALUE value after ALTER SEQUENCE ..RESTART and before invoking NEXT VALUE but could not able to find the way to get the value of NEXT CACH...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Logo images maintenance within the platform

Rather than have a customer in the IBM PA cloud, scramble round trying to find a robust location for a URL (with jpg extension) that we can use for company logo in reports (generally ends up as a workaround in Box with dummy accounts or something ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data connections - GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake native connectivity

Lots of modern SAAS tools built from the ground up have direct connectors for popular data sources. Might be good to tick a few off that are common. Currently only ODBC and File Transfer (requires a SFTP orchestration tool) exist for PA cloud.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Change to 'Active DB2 Systems' panel

When viewing the DB2 Tools Launchpad and the list of tools installed, enter '?' for a list of active SSIDs. The list that returns includes all DB2 Systems by name, but only the descriptions of the subsystems that match entries in the currently a...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Controller web-to allow fixing of historical rate on company journal

Controller web company journal data entry should allow fixing of historical rate like what the Controller Classic is currently providing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration