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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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Setting up of customizable thresholds for reconciliation review

It will be helpful if there is an option within Cognos to configure thresholds (both in absolute (i.e. in AED) and relative terms (i.e. as a percentage of the reported values). Any individual reconciliation within the 'Intercompany Balances' recon...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Capability to provide review comments against individual analysis/forms

It would be helpful if the Controller allows the reviewing entity/reviewer to provide review comments against individual submissions (forms or analysis within the form, where applicable) reported by the subsidiaries in Cognos. The reporting entity...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reference to originating form in reconciliation report ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' 'and Intercompany Balance'

It will be helpful for the user if the aforementioned reconciliation reports include the form numbers from which the account codes are coming right next to the account codes.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Support of LVARCHAR fields in Forms (4GL)

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about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to NTH in the TOM

We are running OMEGAMON for DB2 V5R3 and have recently installed PTF UI50913 that makes Near Term History available in the TOM. However, we are noticing that there is some functionality that can be found in the CUA that is not yet available in the...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Performance Reporter update job for historical tables.

When a new version of Omegamon for DB2 PE is installed, the DDL is provided to create new Statistic, accounting, audit, etc history tables. IBM should provide people who use these tables jobs that will UPDATE the tables instead of expecting the us...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TLSv1.2 Support to XMETA/DSODB from DataStage

We are planning to have secure connection to DB2 using TLSv1.2 for which we are having issues when DB2 upgraded to TLSv1.2 unable to use DataStage.Upon Opening a PMR TS001777326 we were said that it is not supported for DataStage which needs to op...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

RedHatEnterprise 7.2+ x86-64 tested and supported with IIS 11.3.1.2?

Hi,we need to know if it is possible to run IIS 11.3.1.2 on RedHat 7.2+, since we have stakeholders coming in on new servers built on that OS level. And OS team will not have the servers running on release 6 any longer. That means we might have to...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

provide Information Server 64 bit on windows

Large parts of Information Server are still 32 bits on windows server, including DataStage. (IIS is fully 64 bit on linux/Aix). Customer expectation is that this is 64 bits and are surprised otherwise nowadays.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration