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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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Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Repair PAX to enable formulas in the Excel cell (such as SUBNM or DBRW,etc.)

If open Custom Report (or Dynamic Report) then the figures don’t refresh using PAX IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.46
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data flow Designer Allows only changed or new jobs to be published to git repository

Currently Data flow designer allows same version of job to be published to git multiple times which results redundant versions in git repository. DFD should only allow git publish if a job is changed or it's a new job
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send report output via email

Once a report has been run in a portlet (in this case a SharePoint Page Viewer web part) there is no option to be able to send the report output via email. The client would like this functionality to be added to the product (either via a button th...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to create a percentage of the single rows instead of a simple total in a active report

It is impossible to create a percentage of the single row instead of a simple total in a active report. In a normal report it is possible to insert a query calculation into a cell but this is not possible to do in an active report. Enable the func...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI and TM1 Integration: New TM1 objects must be directly accessible from Report Studio

The most important TM1 objects must be implemented in a way a long-term TM1 customer would expect it: - Cubes AND a direct import of Cubeviews into the Cognos BI environment - Dimensions
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to leverage saved values in report views in a report booklet

Current product functionality does not allow for the inclusion of multiple report views with different saved prompt values in a report booklet. As confirmed by Report Studio PM:When Merge is selected parameter values that come from the booklet ite...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration