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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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Comment colour in TI different, concerning a string with more than 1 line, e.g. mdx-expression with strings

Hello, in PAW_98 I checked that if you have a code with more than 1 line and then you comment different parts, especially strings, however, not only sole strings like 'test' but also mdx-expressioins, the colour is not always right, concerning the...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Is a defect

Remove Cluster Admin Role from the installation/upgrade/runtime of shared cluster components (License Manager, Certificate Manager)

In banking environments, roles are clearly segregated between teams (e.g., Infrastructure team, Application team). For day-to-day operations and application upgrades, the Application team should not require Cluster Admin privileges, as the respons...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Refresh when navigating to workbook

Action button to navigate to another book. Would like it to force refresh/calculate the target book even when it is already opened. To build a website like experience the user is not using the PAW switcher to move between books. Rather using Actio...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Not under consideration

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration