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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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Properties tab should not reset to the first tab when changing selection of an object.

When creating or modifying a workbook you often make changes to the same settings from the properties window. Every time you select an object to modify it refreshes as you expect with the new properties but changes the focus to the first tab. This...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Reference output for CSV and Excel Data

In addition to booklets, utilizing Report References is a great way of abstracting source reports from consumers. Different from Report Views, because you can't create a report view of a report view. But, you can create a report view from a report...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add option to the cookie configuration for setting the SAMESITE parameter

Web browsers are starting to assume a default setting SAMESITE=lax for cookies they receive. This default setting causes issues when a Cognos report is embedded in a site with a different domain setting. We need to be able to configure this option...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an additional output DD for Recovery Plan messages that cause Plan create failures

We are testing Recovery Expert and as part of our POC one of our batch runs produced an extremely large amount of output in the ARYEXPLN DD (over 139,500 lines). The job ended with a RC=8 and an indication that a Recovery Plan could not be created...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display data imported from connection on analytics dashboard

This is the case number TS004291198 we had opened. Although there is other way to solve it, but it is not user-friendly to do it. We would need this function to use the dashboard like what other dashboard softwares can do. We will need MySQL as th...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Planned for future release

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][CS] - PMC becomes very slow during heavy workload

PMC becomes very slow when there is heavy workload running on a large Grid. Issue is seen on Resource Group, Resource plan, Consumer and Consumer Properties pages, however performance of Consumer Properties page is particularly bad. It takes more ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 2 Planned for future release

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release