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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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Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Classic CDC needs to alert on Delete/Define operation on source VSAM file

when a delete/define operation occurs on a source vsam file which is enabled for replication (LOGREPLICATE), it puts the source and target data out of sync and hence may cause replication to break. A warning message (CEC*W) may be helpful for oper...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Retention of Formatting in Planning Analytics for Excel Viewer

When using Planning Analytics our Developers create standard views for users so that they can easily see important information in the system. In the RDP Perspectives Cube Viewer you can add formatting to these views e.g #,###;(#,###) which when th...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Enable "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for DRDA servers

On the iseries/AS400 it's possible that a table contains non numeric data in a numeric column.In order to allow access to such tables, without getting an exception, there is a "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for OleDB connections:http://www-01.ibm.co...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Not under consideration

Watch Rules: Ability to copy a watch rule

go to "My Watch Rules" > Rules tab. Look at the tool bar, there is cut and paste, but not copy.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Accessibility feature - access more menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard

In Dashboards it is not possible to access the (…) menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard. It should be possible to access the menu with the keyboard in order to assist users who have a disability.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Prompt customer need to reduce prune interval

In a busy Q Rep env with many bi-di Q subs, there may lots of P2PNORECAPTURE signal insert into IBMQREP_SIGNAL control table by Q Apply program. As per design, Q Capture delete up to 10000 rows at a time for one prune interval. When the average P2...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Is a defect

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration