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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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Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Projects Id needs to be deleted from catalog assets when the project is removed.

Project name is not captured in the connections table whereas project ID is available. If the project name is deleted, then related project id also should be removed from the Catalog assets.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Ability to customize "My schedules and subscriptions" view

Many of our Cognos Analytics users complain that they are not able to customize the view of “My schedules and subscriptions” in Cognos Analytics. They would like to change the width of “Name” column and shrink unnecessary wide columns like “Priori...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add identifier of the element in folder on Tile view (like List View has)

Tile view does not contain any identifier for elements in HTML unlike the List View. And we need to determine what storeID is associated with a specific item in DOM (report/dashboard etc) on Tile view. Please see screenshots for details. Tile View...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

IDAA AOT support

We have data stage jobs (parallel) jobs, and applications that use Business Objects, that would like to utilize AOTs,Currently, AOTs are qualified by a schema name and a table name. This effectively prevents us deploying AOTs in data stage as the ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Line between two different points on a Map visualization

Our client is looking to add the capability to see lines between one Latitude and another as well as one Longitude and another. Currently, we only have the option to add one Latitude and one Longitude. A great use case for this is for understand a...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add TDNoOverlap constraint type to CP Optimizer

The TDNoOverlap constraint type is presented in chapter 7 of the Ph.D. thesis "A Constraint Programming Approach for the Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem", by Penelope Aguiar-Melgarejo https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01514369/documen...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Resize dropdown lists in Parameters popup window

In PAW, currently it's not possible to resize the dropdown lists in the Parameters popup window used to run a TI process through an action button. We've been using a Dimension List to restrict the parameter options and sometimes the item in the dr...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration