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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Data Server Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support "Dynamic Distribution Groups" in Cognos Analytics

Dear, Customer would like to use "Dynamic Distribution Groups" coming from AD for bursting purpose. It is not supported for the moment (see TS001311817).
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent defined files from being deleted during installation

Request for an configurable options of files and folders, that are not deleted during installation or upgrade situation.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Mapbox maps with 1 point on it zoom past that point to max zoomlevel

When a Mapbox map ends up showing only 1 Point (perhaps through active filters), the autozoom of the widget zooms to the max zoom level, a few kilometers west of the Point that should be visible. (at least in SA)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PLANNAME and PROGNAME in error-message if PROGAUTH(ENABLE) error

Hi When a program fails e.g. with reasoncode 00F3003B, I want to see in the error message, which row DB2 tried to find in SYSIBM.DSNPROGUATH, i.e. I need program- nad planname.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Write type 99 records to a different log stream

The Type 99 records are not needed for IMS database integrity andtheir processing consumes a large amount of I/O bandwidth on thecritical OLDS log stream. It would be useful to split this I/O to a differentlog stream (along with copies of the nece...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Acceleration of queries that have masked columns referenced in the outermost SELECT

If a column is masked and referenced in the SELECT clause, the queries is no longer a candidate for acceleration. " Outermost SELECT statement must not reference masked columns" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daafz/7.5?topic=accelerator-supported-que...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Configurable variable quota designated for datasets per user/group/or role

Currently the allocated size for datasets are the same for everyone. For Powerusers we need to allocate bigger size
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration