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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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Prevent users from creating duplicate fields in multiple field groups within same OpenPages object type

Allowing users to create duplicate field name in multiple field groups of the same object type leads to errors in Cognos reports that use the duplicate fields, unless the Cognos reports are updated to reference the auto-renamed fields. When Report...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Terminate a long running txn on the MDM Operational Server when a set timeout is reached at the Client.

When MDM txns are executed on the Operational Server (getParty for example), the calling Client stays connected until receiving a SUCCESS or FAILURE response from the server. Once the response is received, the connection is closed. In the case whe...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen.

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen. The reason is that the current "Name" menu field is so narrow that some names are obscured, making it difficult to use. I would like to widen it.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Option to do Filter for Report without fetching a list of values

When querying from a package in Query Studio the prompt option can be configured in Framework Manager to be an edit box, which prevents millions of values to be retrieved from the database for detail query items. In Report, the Filter for Report o...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to OQWT Query Advisor

We use OQWT advisors regularly for both reactive and more common proactive performance review The DSM tool seems to be working fine, although we really need the query and Access path advisors to work. One of my concerns with the advisors (OQWT (DS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add MFA to all FTM check application processes.

MFA should be an option to be enabled for UI access, server and db access and any application process that enables login.
11 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Embedded report library default configuration into installation default / config utility

Since the embedded report library should be the main source of system reports from Controller 11.0, please make it the default configuration, or possible to configure in Controller Configuration. For example: Updating the CA server URL in Controll...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Please show all the groups when we add user into some group, in "catalog" function.

When creating permissions and adding users or user groups to catalog and projects, not all content is displayed. We have to use the search function to find the specific individuals or groups to be added. We hope we can get the feature as it in oth...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar the same way as when navigating though folders. The names of cognos roles and groups do not appear as soon as they are long, instead we see dots.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration