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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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Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dock Fields closer to the Sources on a Dashboard

I love the dashboard interface changes in v11.1.6. I especially like having the "Fields" open without having to open the visualization. A suggestion I have is to give users the ability to dock the Fields section closer to the Source section.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow CECD0015E to inform user where error was found

CECD0015E error message is cryptic at best. It does not allow the customer (user) to make any determination as to the cause of the error or the ability to fix the error. In order to currently fix the error, the user MUST contact IBM with JESLOG an...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Schedule Capability on a Report Specific Level

We'd like the ability to control whether a user or users can have schedule capabilities on a report level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Process PBG same as non-UTS Segmented When Using LISTDEF

When using LISTDEF with “PARTLEVEL 0”, partitioned by growth tablespaces which were converted from non-partitioned segmented tablespaces are no longer being considered as part of the result set. In order to maintain the same result list I would li...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make the importing of Agent (Event) schedules consistent with schedules for reports/jobs

In Cognos 10, if you do not select the option to Include Schedules in an Export, the Import would not touch existing schedules. In Cognos 11.x, if you do not select the Include Schedules option in an Export, the Import will DELETE an existing sche...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector should be enhanced to support multiprotocol S3 bucket connection.

Currently all S3 connectors provided in DataStage only support nave S3 but not multiprotocol S3. For use cases where user can't map the NAS like region limitation or OCP4 restriction not allowing NAS mount, NAS storage could be configured as S3 bu...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Deploy of QMF websphere on zCX Openshift

We are installing QMF for Websphere on z/OS but would like to run it under zCX Openshift. When will QMF for Websphere container based support for Red Hat OpenShift be available?
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0