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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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View/Edit Workspace calculations

When you have created a calculation in PAW there is no way to view or edit the calculation. Most important is to be able to view the calculation, but it would be great if it would be possible to edit it as well.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

View/Expand per dimension

Functionality to be able to set the exploration feature (show +/- on rows) in PAW per dimension and not just per view.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Have the ability of changing resource definition credentials programmatically instead of through the Deployment Manager Client

This would allow admins to change the spss resource definition passwords using automation, rotating them more frequently and making the accounts used in the application more secure.
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Report schedule saved parameters in Report Properties

Users are requesting to be able to manually run a schedule. This can be done in Cognos Admin console, but they don't have access to this, and there's no way to grant them access to just the schedules in Cognos Admin console for only their groups s...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

DMC Missing Feature from DSM - Table Comparison

DSM has a feature where you can select a table to compare between databases. This is the only feature that we are missing so we can fully migrate to DMC. Our team uses this for troubleshooting and confirmation.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration