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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Support DDL replication for watsonx.data through change log business goal

Customer's RFI requested for DDL replication for heterogeneous database type (ie. Oracle to DB2, pgsql to wxd). This is a important feature because they have thousands of daily DDL operations in their production environments and cannot manually tr...
20 days ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
28 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration

Flexible Data Replication Across IBM Cloud Pak for Data Clusters for watsonx.data as target

Background: As of now, IBM Data replication has no restrictions to be deployed on specific cluster to replicate data from various sources to targets available, however for users who wants to replicate data using watsonx.data presto connector, the ...
10 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 1 Submitted

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

User exits on Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data

Currently, user exits are not supported on Data Replication for CP4D. It would be good to support this to enable customers to migrate from InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) that are currently using user exits. Thanks!
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Specifying RTN Codes to Ignore

• current situation: • If the RTN code is not 0 in the stream job step and the general job step, the job step will be treated as Failure, and the job will also have a Status of Failure. • Improvement Request: • I want to set a return code to be ig...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted

Provide integration with ChatGPT for AI Analysis of reporting results

We can see if will be a great business case that if we call ChatGPT, then pass the file and ask ChatGPT to analyse and provide a summary. If we can do that, it will greatly improve the use of Cognos in our decisions making process.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 1 Planned for future release