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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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Extend filter name cutoff in report creation

A user opening a report might want to look at the query details and quickly see exactly what is going on in the report. However, because the filter names seem to have a 50 char limit on the display, nearly every filter built into a data module is ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Improve L1 backup usability

We would like to use incremental backups with 'onbar'. However this is difficult because we use storagepools and chunks can be added at any time. Once a chunk has been added this forces a L0 backup of at least the dbspace concerned and the root db...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Restrict databases in select database to log on to

We intend to use Cognos Controller in a cloud environment where internal but also external users (customers) have access to. Currently, when a user launch Cognos Controller client, they will see all cognos controller databases in the "select datab...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow OTHER CA environments report on TM1 database secured with mode 5 (CAM)

Currently, when a TM1 server is configured with IntegratedSecurityMode=5 (CAM), only that one CAM environment can report on that TM1 database. No other CA environment can query that TM1 database. To workaround that limitation, customers have to se...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web 'Refresh' button (to synchronise changes made in classic client) to be inside other tabs where 'Issues' are flagged (like the 'Reconciliation' tab) instead of only inside tab 'Intercompany'

There is a known limitation with Controller Web (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1167568, plus also case TS004629628) where if you make changes in Controller 'classic' client (for example to fix a reconciliation issue) then Controller W...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Allow Functions / Expressions to be used with multi row insert

Please allow expressions and or functions to be used within a multi row insert statement. I have an application inserting 1000 rows via multi row insert and the table has the POINTS columns which needs to be populated using the function ST_POINT. ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JOB Section required SNMP

Hi Team, We are having JOB section which runs few scripts, but when any failure for it we are looking to have SNMP enabled . We require SNMP to be enabled as we want any JOB Failure to act within SLA without any miss.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Integrated Pacemaker

Hi Team, For all databases greater than V11.5.7.0 we are planning to start deploying DB2 Integrated Pacemaker cluster setup which requires monitoring such as : If cluser is not ready to move Standby node. If VIP is not up. If Cluster is in Maintai...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Outstanding Archive Log Generation

Hi Team, We have alert in DMC to check if any failed archivals to send an alert. Can we have alert if any outstanding logs more than 10-20 are not archived to send an alert which can help us to track how many logs are not archived and why its missed.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Log Generation Rate Monitoring

Hi Team, We are seeing huge log generation on daily basis. Can we get the Log generation rate monitoring in report section so we can try to schedule on daily basis to send E-mail notification to review for Critical databases the flow coming in.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration