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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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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Snowflake destination events

Upon writing the data to snowflake table, we don't get any events which means we're unable to trigger any further action after writing to snowflake table. Currently we're facing two problems because of this: We need to write data to two snowflake ...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

Azure Key Vault for Deployable Transfomer for Snowflake

For security conscious customers being able to store credentials in the cred stores we support in SDC would be helpful, Azure being this customers
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Planned for future release

Enhance the "Schema filter" field functionality for IBM Cloud Database for MongoDB.

It would be beneficial if this field could display a list of available schemas, as currently, a connection cannot be created without populating the "Schema filter" field. Often, users may not know the exact schema name in advance, so it would be i...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Enhancing Data Presentation in Excel for Planning Analytics

Excel remains the favored method for consuming data from Planning Analytics. However, users are not entirely satisfied with the presentation options of the Exploration Report, Quick Report, and the new Universal Report. They wish to display indivi...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration