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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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View report status when Scheduling capability turned off

Client has scheduling capability disabled for dev environment, but users testing reports need to see what reports they are running in the background and the status of those runs.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PoC: Management Switch Power Suply in state ERROR

We are doing a PoC and we identified the following hardware issue with ap issues -hw Management Switch Power Supply in state ERROR
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Is a defect

Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add and support JDBC / DQM functionality for Progress clients

Support for Progress OpenEdge JDBC connections for IBM Cognos Analytics to report critical information. With CA 11.0.2 Progress no longer supports Progress OpenEdge ODBC with no JDBC support for DQM dashboarding/story telling functionality for Pro...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress “your report is running' message when user select any Cascading Prompts on prompt page

Currently at NYC DSS agency, Management Console Cognos/ Netezza reporting system having 100 reports developed by IBM and maintained by DSS ITS. As per user requirement, we would like IBM Cognos software to suppress ‘your report is running' messa...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New packages button, would significantly improve our users experience

We have a packages folder containing all our packages that our users use. To get to it when creating a new report/dashboard, they have to scroll down all the team folders that we have which is slow and frustrating.It would make perfect sense in th...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NX842 hardware accelerated backup and log file compression for PPCLE

NX842 HW accelerated backup and log file compression is available on AIX. Why is it not available on PPCLE. All recent Linux distrubutions has kernel support for accessing this hardware accelerator.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Enhance message 00F30034 with plan name

Enhancement of message 00F30034 with plan name in question. The message text today is"The authorization ID associated with this connection is not authorized to use the specified plan name or the specified plan name does not exist." Please add a va...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration