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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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Increase company code length from 6 to 9

current controller company code is limited to 6 characters. user has multiple consolidation types in which have used up alot of the alphanumeric combinations as group codes between consolidation types should be different. When it comes to group re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Externalizing RTS while ts states in UTRW

While Shrlevel Change Load does not externalize rts information, we are using ACCESS DB... MODE(STATS) before loading that table to the IDAA box. As we know ACCEL_LOAD_TABLE procedure is doing the same thing, but that command is not working when t...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to confirm command '-Activate Function Level(xxxx)'

There is only one command needed to activate an higher or less (fallback) Function Level. Please provide a possibility like e.g. a WTO that has to be replied to confirm the command.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding Clone tables to Refresh Replication Method in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine

We understand Clone tables are not supported in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine. Our question, it should at least support the mapping of the Clone tables for refresh method as in the case of CDC for DB2 for z/OS as a Remote source. Our earli...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SDK - create report view

As an OEM provider, we are integrating some of the Cognos functionality into our product to accommodate consumer users without the need to go to Cognos directly. The Cognos application resides within our iframe. When clicking the 'Create Report Vi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration