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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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Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Glass Portal Signout option by user to go to External system for Logoff

To have the signout action of the Glass Portal with in Cognos Analytics go to a configurable external URL for signout of IBM Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Instrumentation to handle Native Strored Procedures created with the AUTONOMOUS keyword

Need assistance with how to handle native stored procedures created with the ‘AUTONOMOUS’ keyword. One of the benefits of using the Db2 instrumentation interface, is the ability to follow the flow of Stored Procedure SQL from the calling applicati...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Caching of large packages or modules for low bandwidth

Several users need to work in low bandwidth environments (5 or 2x2 Mbit), which currently may result in slow loading or in JS timeouts when large packages (35MB model.xml) are loaded in Authoring. With this idea, users in low bandwidth environment...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage enables the Stage to read well formatted flat files without any script support / preformating.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Allow Cancelling of Run Process Threads

Threads started by using RunProcess in a TI cannot be cancelled when using the Admin tool in Planning Analytics Workspace. We use the RunProcess to enable multi-threading of some of our load processes. We had the system go into wait mode because o...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Use OPTHINT for package with version

Db2 uses the following PLAN_TABLE columns when matching rows that specify access paths to SQL statements: QUERYNO , APPLNAME , PROGNAME , VERSION , COLLID , OPTHINT If I use PKGVERSION(AUTO) during precompile I need to change my OPTHINT every time...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow wallets for mTLS to be accessed from Cloud Object Storage

As cloud-based datasources become the norm, security is becoming stronger by default. As an example, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), supports Mutual TLS (mTLS) via wallet-based security as a default mechanism. Cognos Analytics on Cloud (On...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Restrict access of non system data by instance owner

We manage many database systems however as a service provider we do not want the ability to access customer data unless a customer enables this access to us. This should be set at the time of database creation and should not be something that can ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration