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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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Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Enable renaming input/output links of a hierachical stage

Currently it is impossible to rename the input/output links of a Hierarchical stage without putting the assembly in an invalid state See Case: TS000177036
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Recent Reports on Content Page

In Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 the content homepage (?perspective=content) has some tabbed folder by default: My content, Team content, Custom folder and My portal pages. So this is the perfect starting point for our consumers. It would be very helpfu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

Please add more MDX functions

While Cognos does have a number of MDX functions, a few important functions are missing. While it is possible to find workarounds for the missing functions, these are invariably less performant than using the native functions. With the possible ex...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Altering table with a CLONE disruption

Currently, when altering a table with a CLONE on it, the clone needs to be dropped and to add it back the following procedure must be followed:1) REORG the tablespace 2) run MODIFY RECOVERY TABLESPACE DSNUM ALL DELETE AGE (*) 3) run an image copy ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance .NET API for maps

When attempting to use the reflection mechanism of OPL CPLEX API under .NET (version 12.9 but same problem seen in documentation of latest version), I stumble upon an error on my first implementation of a missing method "NbDim" for the map class "...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

The query criteria “Store Time” in MER Message List Filter confuses customer and end-user.

System: Message Entry and Repair Facility Actor: End-user Employees of financial institutions can use the Message Entry and Repair (MER) Facility to manually process financial messages. End-user is always using filter function in MER list page to ...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Automatic activation of accounting for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services.

The manual procedure described in "System Administration Guide" for "Collecting accounting data for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services" is prone to be forgotten or overseen and should be better replaced by an automatic procedure like that applying ...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Improved retry handling for FA transfers based on status information

The request is needed since the retry for files in Accepted status is no more needed given that SWIFT retries for 4 hours, if after 4 hours a file is not sent, it means that a huge technical problem is likely affecting the receiver, in this case w...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration