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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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Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Re-order Dimensions on a Cube via a Turbo Integrator Function

We have systemised approaches to building cubes and dimensions within Planning Analytics, this includes automatically building cubes from source systems and adding dimensions to cube after they have been built. Unfortunately when rebuilding these ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a date ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Please create current training material for Db2 administration

Please create basic training material for database administrators on Db2 that is easily consumable and free. A platform like EDx, Udemy, etc, would be ideal, but even on a proprietary platform would be acceptable.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Option to include 7zip for application backups in TM1 Servers

We are not able to do backups and zip the data as we use to do on-premise.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration