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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Dump configs to standardized format for cluster comparisons

We have multiple stand-alone clusters, and frequently have issues with something working differently in one as opposed to another. The solution from our side is to use something like ansible/chef/cfEngine to build the clusters, but for our existin...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Eliminate PAX error in Design Mode

My client uses Design mode to build reports based off a 20 dimension cube. This way it does not recalculate each time something is dragged in or the context changes. An issue arises where the user drags in the dimenion on the rows and then goes to...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Is a defect

Ability to create 'Folders' in 'Data source Connections' in admin portal

Please add ability to create 'folders' in 'Data source connections' in admin portal 'configuration tab'
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Open a URL in a separate tab when pressing and holding CTRL key

There is no convenient way to open a URL in a new browser tab in Cognos 11, for example opening a report in Authoring in a new tab.Pressing and holding CTRL and clicking on a URL is commonly used for opening a URL in a new tab. Not so in Cognos 11...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run Metrics Feature displays incorrect Results on CP4D

We should be able to find rows information when writing to Target Dataset stage on DataStage
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted