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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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Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

remove STOP DATABASE SPACENAM for ALTER TABLESPACE USING STOGROUP

Currently STOP DATABASE SPACENAM is a prerequisite of ALTER TABLESPACE USING STOGROUP We wish DB2 can remove this restriction.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Drag and drop set additions for reporting (like Analysis Studio did)

In Analysis Studio, you can drag additional items into a set, and it lets you and they stay as one set. This then allows calculations and summary data to be based on all the data in the set. In Reporting, you can't drop and drop additional items, ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back the Cube updated date into Reporting

In Analysis Studio, you can very easily see when Transformer cubes were built. This is extremely useful for our users, so that they know for sure they're using fresh data. This functionality appears missing in Reporting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector should be enhanced to support multiprotocol S3 bucket connection.

Currently all S3 connectors provided in DataStage only support nave S3 but not multiprotocol S3. For use cases where user can't map the NAS like region limitation or OCP4 restriction not allowing NAS mount, NAS storage could be configured as S3 bu...
9 months ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

The sample programs should support the DECFLOAT data type.

I am trying to use DSNTIAUL to unload a table with a DECFLOAT data type. I am encountering a failure. I would really like for the sample programs to support the DECFLOAT data type.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding calculated as option to Active report "Summarize in output"

Active report with COL1, COL2, COL3 where COL3 is COL2/COL1. When using default summary calculation totals er calculated correct, but when changing to summarize in output the calculation options does not include an option for "calculated" hence ma...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration