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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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set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New feature to disable rules during data load process

Pain Point: P&L cube does allocations by rule. During data load of 1 million cells, the allocation N: only rules and N: & C: feeders fire for each cell causing unacceptably long load durations.. Workaround: Even splitting the load process ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Avoid Db2 failure even if it got BSDS access initialization failure (BSDS timestamp mismatch)

[Background]- Customer's GRSRNL specifies SYSVSAM in systems exclusion list because they need to share CATALOGs. [Description]Our customer got BSDS Access initialization failure and starting Db2 was failed. Please refer to PMR#55237,615,760.They c...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

When grid values are shown as percentages. Compute variances by subtracting the percentage rather than underlying number.

We would like to be able to use the base functionality of showing values of a cube view as percentages and subsequently correctly calculate a variance between those percentages.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit the report retention settings and hide from users

We are a hosted solution that offers Cognos to multiple clients. We want to restrict users from storing too many saved report executions due to space constraints on our hosted content store.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration