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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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Reorg online on 24x7 applications

The reorg online process need to lock the table in order to conclude. This is not a problem when you dont have many transactions, but when you have a 24x7 intense workload you might have a huge impact on your application.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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.
12 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...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

PAW - Download/Upload Colour Palette (IDs) for environment promotion

PAW Colour palettes can be manually re-created across environments but as each palette is created with a unique paletteId, the colour formatting is lost when we deploy between environments (colour palette needs to be manually re-selected after dep...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Python scripts should be minimized as short as R boilerplate statements.

can use Python 3 from extension nodes and custom node dialog builder. However, compared to R, Python has a lot of boilerplate statements. It would be nice if Python could be scripted in the same way as R, with a minimum of boilerplate statements. ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Masked Data Customization

Allow more customization around which users can view the values of each encrypted attribute. This is currently handled at the user account level and a user may either view all encrypted/masked values or none of them. We need additional flexibility...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

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...
12 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?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted