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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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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...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When copying or moving a report, modify the warning message "an item with this name already exists"

It should display the report name in the user's language set, or even better both the name in default language and also the displayed language so the user can easily locate the object in question.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

message to indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted

To indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted, either through DSNI031I or via a new message.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Purge utility configuration parameters enhancement request for FTM V3.0 on z/OS

The current (FTM V3.0.0.4) purge utility requires changes to a properties file, which in a production environment, is restricted. The purge utility can also benefit from re-design to allow additional configuration, delivering improved usability.
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Is a defect

FTM documentation in Knowledge Center spread over several versions

Documentation for FTM is spread over multiple versions in the FTM knowledge center.For example, the Knowledge center for FTM for z/OS 3.0.1 has only information about FTM CPS, RIsk Management and Services and PFS, and misses a wide variety of info...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

OAC pages should show creation timestamp on errors

On the details page of any FTM object (PT, batch, transaction, svc_participant...) the errors tab shows a list of errors. The errors attribute include the following, but not the creation date and time IDApplication IDTypeComponent TypeComponent Na...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration