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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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Direct folder creation feature

Direct folder creation feature should be added back
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

List of data sources in Cognos Administration listed in a flat list. We should use folder structures.

There is no way to organize the data sources in Cognos Connection Administration.The current offering is a list. It would be more advantageous to allow folders so an administrator could group the data sources in a more logical manner. The problem ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Command to resolve in-place alters

Have a command "UPGRADE_IPA" which can be run against a table/fragment to resolve in-place alters. This should have an online option which utilizes small transactions.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Support Snapshot Isolation Level

Today, when our ETL jobs scan large amounts of data from a table with out using RS/RR isolation levels under certain conditions they see duplicate data and/or missing data. This could be caused due to the fact that rows that were already scanned c...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Enable Full Multitenancy features with Cognos Analytics UI

Currently the old Cognos Connection is required to use Multi-Tenancy features in Cognos Analytics. Customers want to have all features available using only the new Cognos Analytics UI.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Collaboration record for Governance Artifacts

workflows for governance artifacts (terms, data classes, etc.) have optional or required comment boxes for collaborators on the artifacts to add to. This is required if an approval is rejected in a workflow. Those comments do not appear to the req...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard, data driven number of charts - repeater like functionality, like exist in report
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Examples - styling the Search & Select prompt object

We are using the out-of-the-box Search & Select prompt in our application. It takes up a lot of space on the page. We are looking for the "art of the possible" and some examples of how the prompt object can be modified to behave differently, a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extract Dynamic Cube Model

Provide the ability to extract a dynamic cube model from the Cognos content store, similar to the methods used to extract a framework manager model.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration