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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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default path to save new report

For new reports, Cognos Analytics always default the save path to location of the latest data source used in the report. This default option is not convenient in our environment as we keep separated Data Sources and Reports in different folder str...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PRESENTATION SERVICE SHOWS AN ERROR WHICH IS NOT ONE FOR PRS-PRO-0511 MESSAGE IN THE LOGS

Since Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 the cognosserver.log file shows an error message which is not one : 2019-02-12T07:00:00.079+0100 ERROR Audit.xts [Thread-401] NA Info Success PresentationService PRS-PRO-0511 A partial reinitialization of the XTS proc...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Spark Version 3.4.* for Conductor to utilize newer version of Pandas with Spark Functionality

In Spark 3.3.1, Pandas is unable to use 'iteritems'. This Issue is resolved in Jira but only for Spark 3.4. We would greatly benefit from Spark 3.4 on Spectrum Conductor and Pandas compatibility.
7 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

A path to deploy bulk deletes without the strain stemming from entity composition rebalancing.

In our current bulk delete of a system (~144M across 4 record types), the TPS is very low as the process requires a constant kicking off of the match process, meaning that the re-balancing is taking a large portion of the compute. This seemingly i...
7 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure. Currently with many sessions executing the same stored procedure, the stored procedure can be recompiled by many sessions causing a bottleneck. A new condition is n...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration