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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Custom Tooltips in Dashboards & Reports

Custom Tooltips is an extremely helpful thing for anyone Cognos users. Please add this feature in all possible scenarios mainly Dashboards and Reports.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

About the use of Azure storage service from Modeler Client

I was able to browse the text file on OneDrive(*1) over networkdrive from SPSS Modeler Client. Please state in the release notes that file browsing using the WEBDAV(*2) is supported. (*1)Storage service provided by Microsoft (*2)Web-based Distr...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DataStage : Trino connector

We need a connector for Trino in InfoSphere Datastage as Trino is not supported officially by IBM. PMR No : TS016068863
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Create a new BiF to do a real TIMESTAMPDIFF

The current scalar function TIMESTAMPDIFF is great if the difference is not over one month, then it starts guessing at how many days are involved. If you want to know the number of seconds between two timestamps it gives variously bad degrees of e...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create options to disable hierarchy feature

Right now in PA, hierarchy option is enabled by default whether you want to use it or not. We want to have a way to enable/disable it through config parameter, so that people can use it rightly. Please make this option as false by default and peop...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration