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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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dynamically allocated 1000000 locks

this message will start to show repeatedly in the online log:dynamically allocated 1000000 locksbut no more info than that - in order to track down the issue, we need to know what session is causing the increase in locks
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

System Audit log - Failed login attempts

The idea would be to add functionality to record failed login attempts in the system audit log in Cognos Controller. It would be beneficial to have this shown in the audit log because this would strengthen the security of the application and the p...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Shareholdings and investments in external companies, restrict to current period

Our users add values in Shareholdings and Investments for external companies via a form. In the Shareholdings register the users can add other dates than from current period. But in the form it will be saved at current period. See attached documen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Manual Journal Entry information needed in Planning Analytics

The FP&A team needs more details about the journals for their finance analysis, including header information as available in the reports XBJH and XDB22 from Cognos Controller. These information could also be leveraged to help automating some o...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Way to identify and extract all emails sent from openpages/cognos for auditing

As per the audit requirement, we would like to extract all the email triggered from Openpages (via workflows, triggers, etc) and cognos (via schedules ,etc..) for a point of time like last 1 week or 1day with below details.. Email recipients Email...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Resize Selectors / Cube View

In PA Workspace, there seems to be no method to resize the text size on cube views or element selectors.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration