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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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Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Record usage of application plan

In our production environment we have about 15000 application plans. Most of them are probably still used but a lot of them have not been used for several years. We want to get rid of the old ones not to have to rebind them at every new release of...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SHUTDOWN DB2 WHEN RACF EXIT FAILURE

After RACF EXIT is abending and failing , DB2 is changing back to Native DB2 Auth checking , If you migrated to RACF exit this can lead to unwanted behavior , we would want a ZPARM or OPTION to make DB2 shutdown if the RACF EXIT is not wokring
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Re-introduce SharePoint integration in Cognos Analysis

Cognos 10 supported integration with SharePoint. IBM Support has responded this integration has not...yet...been implemented in Cognos Analytics. My client (SKF) would like it restored.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to move fully trained STT models between separate instances (i.e. DEV vs. PROD or separate accounts)

Customers for best practice reasons keep environments separate (DEV vs. PROD) for security, performance, testing & availability of the model. Training STT models can take hours to train. Not utilizing fully trained models results in delays in...
over 6 years ago in Speech Services 4 Not under consideration

Default the report properties to the report view properties

There is no way to change the Default Portal Action globally, only at a report level but it does not propagate to the report views. A report is created with the 'Default Portal Action' changed from the default of 'View most recent report' to 'Run ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep formatting from PAW view when exporting to Excel

The request is to keep PAW view formatting also after an export to Excel is done. Exports from a PAW view to excel becomes a raw data export and very hard to navigate. Often simple formatting has been applied to the PAW view on row or column level...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration