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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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No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Prompts for all db2 utility cancellations

I have faced this issue at the beginning of my career. When we ran into some issue with utility hung or ran some utility accidentally don’t know when it will be finished and when can we kill that process. If we give a prompt with some information ...
12 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alter (global) VARIABLE command

It is not possible to ALTER a global variable, it is necessary to do DROP + re-CREATE it. And previously we must DROP all the objects that depends on it: PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, TRIGGER, VIEWS ..., and the packages are marked as invalid. After havin...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

bring back history of a job

We have Cognos 11.1.3. In previous versions of Cognos, we could view the run history of a job under advanced properties of the job tab (see run history of a job not there.png). We need this information in order to determine when a job was run last...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Private topology to enable non OCP admins to perform admin tasks on CP4D clusters

Customer requires strict separation from OCP admin and CP4D admins. cross-tenant ‘cluster level’ components — like the license service, cpd-scheduler and cert manager (RH or CPFS’s) would need a cluster admin to manage Each CP4D tenant would have ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration