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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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Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloud Pak for Data - Watson Pipelines - Add Undostack as a drop down list

Currently in a Watson Pipeline if you want to undo 5 Steps, then you have to 1: know how many steps to go back 2: click on the undo button n times As discussed with the dev team, this should be improved to offer an arrow-down next to the undo/redo...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Be able to 'Save As' processes to other PA services

For small scripts and testing we often test something out in UAT/DEV. It would be nice not to have to go through a whole migration process to save the process to production
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
3 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Functionality already exists

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Regarding the move rename script process

Regarding the move rename script process https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpages/9.0.0?topic=databases-entity-moverename-utility We want to propose a better function to batch move or rename business entitiessomething we tell you what kind of move re...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
6 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted