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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Function to move sysadmin database

Product : IDS 12.10We like to have a build APIto move sysadmin database from 1 dbspace to another.Currently we are using execute function task ("reset sysadmin",);And this will reset the entire database. We found out lately, multitenant database i...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

In Cube Viewer in PA for Excel there is not a short cut or keycombination to navigate into the dimension and action icon bar

In Cube Viewer in PA for Excel there is not a short cut or a key combination to navigate into the dimension and action icon bar. It is only possible to navigate through the tab key in the table. The Cube Viewer in PA for Excel is a PAW component t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In PA for Excel in Cube Viewer it is not possible to open the context menue with the short cut shift + F10

In PA for Excel in Cube Viewer it is not possible to open the contect menue with the short cut Shift + F10. The key combination is not working.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Gradient Conditional Formatting not supported if published in PAw

If we publish a PAx sheet to PAw that has gradient conditional formatting it will fail to load the sheet. Returns an error.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Visualization mouseover/drillthrough support of recursive parent child treemap (starburst, icicle, etc) internal nodes

Add support for mouseover tooltips and drillthrough functionality on internal nodes of recursive parent child treemap Cognos Visualization charts (such as starburst, icicle, etc) as is already working on the leaf nodes of same charts. Not having t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gracefully handle table failures & send email alert

When a table fails due to structure or availability changes, the replication set should instead set the failed table to inactive instead of crashing capture. It should also send an email notification to alert of the issue.

Request for improving performance when uploading shp file to Statistics

cannot complete uploading shp file (81016 KB) to Statistics with Win 7 4G RAM Customer wants to improve this performance. Due to Sahra's request this is written in Japanese 空間モデリングで分析をおこなう際にMAPのUploadをおこã...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Processes List of Cognos BI on Linux Platform

Need to have the Processes List of Cognos Business Intelligence when starting Cognos Service on Linux platform, and the detail function description of each process. Need to have the Official Documentation from IBM Cognos DEV Team.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration