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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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Ability to use PageNumber function in a variable to render the object conditionally

Product: Cognos Report Studio 10.1.1 Currently, according to defect COGCQ00017674 , PageNuber() and PageCount() report function can not be used in a varaible. We wants these function to use these functions in a variable so he can render the object...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Ability to pre-filter data before dq rule execution

Currently we have a workaround using DataStage flows which is very complicated for end users to do themselves. We here in 2H 2023 there will be something using virtual tables?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

3rd party software, The Control Machine, runs right before Distribution to assign accumulators. FTM assigns accumulators at ingestion based on DOW/TOD but if UOWs take too long to get thru the system, PNC wants to call Bus Rules to reassign which could include pocket, endpoint, and accumulator

FTM assigns accumulators at ingestion based on DOW/TOD but if UOWs take too long to get thru the system, PNC wants to call Bus Rules to reassign which could include pocket, endpoint, and accumulator
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Error to be displayed when saving a rule with feeders but not skipcheck

We recently experienced the following issue: A manual action made the skipcheck code disappear at the top of our code. We saved the rule without receiving any error and then closed it. This change resulted in big performance issues of our service ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Compliance with SM1, SM2, SM3 and SM4 encryption

Chinese legal requirements for Planning Analytics 2.0.9.1, and this is the encryption requirement: The National Cryptographic Algorithm is a series of algorithms formulated by the National Cryptographic Bureau. Including symmetric encryption algor...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Period Interval in Custom Reports to expand

current list of period intervals are YTD, 1,2,3,4,6,12 and NPY. It happens that user requires interval 5 & 7 and is unable to find, hence has to work out the interval 5 & 7 values in order to present in excel-linked report. Hence, user is ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

GOC - ADB2W1 should have ability to view the WSL. Has edit but if change is inadvertently made, you need to remember to Cancel

There should be a way to just view the WSL like the Edit. View would display the information protected from update.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute multiple query report into CSV and Excel 2007 data format

If multiple query exists in a report, you cannot download all data both in csv and Excel 2007 data format.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration