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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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Display data imported from connection on analytics dashboard

This is the case number TS004291198 we had opened. Although there is other way to solve it, but it is not user-friendly to do it. We would need this function to use the dashboard like what other dashboard softwares can do. We will need MySQL as th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Planned for future release

Ability to limit report output options

We have sensitive report content that we don't want the user to have the ability email/export/save. Only view in Cognos Connection
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Users can log on Cognos Analytics based on different roles

We want to have a situation that a user when he logs on to to Cognos Analytics he gets a selection what role he want to use, if he has multiple roles (analytics user, analytics explorer, etc.)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications: we have the cognos application hosted on a linux oplatform. Due to this situation, we cannot use the dynamic masking as configured in MS SQL Server 2016. We do not want t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error message. please refer case number for more details. TS001613965
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

meaningful import log description for filtered items

provide meaningful import log description for lines that passed through the filters
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Working system-calls from sysadmin tasks with Informix for Windows

Automatic Backup Tasks started from within the sysadmin-scheduler don't work on windows systems. The same problem with every other system-call. This is a Windows-specific problem. On Linux systems this works as intended.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Log message in case of threshold reached Appliance Data Pool

At one time our Appliance Data Pool was 78% used. Several users faced -904 message without any extra information. They got this message when running Queries with a lot of output (multiple Gb´s).....we saw that the reason was in the area of the spi...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release