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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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Losing Focus on Which Query I am working in Query Explorer

When I am working on a Query, I am losing the Focus, I mean I am unable to see by highlighting on Focus or something so that I know which query I am working with. I'm not sure, if this is a requested feature or if it is already part of releases af...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Break-In for Mass-delete

Enhance the break-in-process so that it also applies for mass deletes and that these deletes can break in into PWFI-transactions bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Warning message before session time-out.

Users do not get prompted that their session may be about to time out. Adding a warning similar to Bank websites that warn you your session is about to end. We could for example provide the user the opportunity to save work, extend the session, or...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Text Risk List Entries Having Option for Case Sensitive/Ignore Cases

We have clients who import attributes that are stored as text (Merchant Name) into their risk lists and the file they are importing comes through as all capital letters due to how their internal database stores the data. In order to account for th...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Need to able to prompt/migrate Virtual tables created from lower environment like TEST to Higher PROD

Problem Statement : Currently we don't have option to prompt/migrate Virtual tables created from lower environment like TEST to Higher PROD. Pain Points : Developers need develop in multiple environments.
12 months ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Have Templates for column selection+order in queries

Typically you have dozens or hundres of queries, many using an identical configuraton of columns. You need to specifiy those columns in every query. When changing the order or adding/removing columnsit is a pain to update them. When creating you q...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 1 Future consideration