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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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Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Provide IDAA ‘rows fetched’ metrics in Query Monitor

QM reports exec count of 0 for the Prepare, Open and Fetches when data is coming from an accelerator. Only rows fetched directly from DB2 are counted in CQM.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

The jobs were developed in Watson Studio Notebooks in Python, they did not stop working when Python moved to a new version.

When the Python Library is updated, all jobs developed in the last version stop working. If it is possible to keep the work developed in the old version working for 1 or 2 previous versions of the current one. This possibility helps to have more t...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

OPL model generation with multithreating

the OPL model generation uses only 1 core and it takes time.with a pre analysis of the model it could be possible to parallelize some of the model generation.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration