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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Allow for simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier

It is an expected behaviour of the simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

CLP command shoud read db2dsdriver.cfg

Db2 command line processor (CLP) shoud read the db2dsdriver.cfg (as CLPPlus does) in order to set particular parameter as current application compatiblity or current packageset when you need a different value from the the default. Thanks
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

IIS vulnerability related to Cognos required settings

IIS vulnerability: The concern regarding "Allow unlisted file name extensions" in IIS has been raised with us previously and has been reviewed by our Development team. Unfortunately our Development team have confirmed that at this time "Allow unli...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Improve QWT to suggest missing join predicates when not involved in declarative RI

Need to improve the tool to advise against missing lead index columns in a join. More detail in additional detail section.
3 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Submitted

UX Improvements on Master Data Explorer UI

It will further support our business end users of MDM in navigating the Master Data Explorer. Furthermore, it will improve ALL end-users experience when performing advanced searches. Here are the specific improvements via feedback: - In addition t...
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Expand DB CFG ddl_compression_def with adaptive option

The adaptive DB CFG extension would give us the opportunity to activate adaptive compression by default. At the moment it is only possible to activate the static camprosseion. Our idea is to set DDL_COMPRESSION_DEF to one of 3 possibilities: 1. NO...
3 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted