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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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Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple deletes of change statements

In comparing databases from one environment to another there is likely a list of changes we do not want to apply yet for a variety of reasons. The resulting compare creates a change ID. The tool allows us to delete these statements. However, the p...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Always Include Edited Report Names in Audit Tables

When auditing is turned on, report names are included in the "COGIPF_RUNREPORT" table of the Audit Database depending on the circumstances of how it is run. The request is that if a report name is known, it should always be included in the audit t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide merged members

We have many entities in our database that have a high volume of merged records that make it difficult to review tasks for remediation. The work around is to scroll up and down and remove records from the records attribute section one at a time or...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Add a column in Audit database where the parent report name can be retrieved for a report view

We have a report for which we have created report views in "My Folder".We want to tie up all the runs of these report views to their parent reports in the audit report. For example, when we create report views with different names and run them, th...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to do Filter for Report without fetching a list of values

When querying from a package in Query Studio the prompt option can be configured in Framework Manager to be an edit box, which prevents millions of values to be retrieved from the database for detail query items. In Report, the Filter for Report o...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Mark a row as "archived" so it will not show up in regular SELECT (or other SQL) operations

Oracle style Data invisibility (archiving) with In Database Archival. See this article ==> http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/w/wiki/11420.oracle-12c-data-invisibility-archiving-with-in-database-archival The idea is to mark a row as arch...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration