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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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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

PAW Selectors should have the option to rebuild an embedded websheet (Universal report or Dynamics form) in a PAW Book.

After refreshing a PAW selector there should be the option to rebuild also an embedded websheet that exists on the same page
29 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Upload files to Risk Lists with conditions for each record

When uploading a file into a Risk List, you can only specify the input attribute value. A comment and a label can be included but it applies to the entire list. We would like to be able to upload a comma delimited file to include all attributes in...
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

CP4D - Cloudera Impala Connector - Truststore/SSL

In Legacy DataStage, we use connect to Hive/Impala using a cacerts which is defined that sever level. we just pass the location of the cacerts and datastage is intelligent enough to use that cacerts and establish the connectivity. But in CP4D we d...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow Time Zone specification on Watson Pipeline schedules

When the time changes, our schedules run an hour later. We need to be able to define a time zone to use on schedules so this doesn't happen. This causes production scheduling issues.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

Separate offerings for Q rep and CDC instead of bundle

From a product patch/maintenance standpoint, the management of these 2 products has been difficult because they both resolve to one product name. But each product has their own maintenance fixes, separate SMP zones, and separate patch scheduling i...

Screen scroll control when Waton is providing an answer

Sometimes, Watson's answers are very long. It will be extremely useful to be able to control de screen scroll display so the user could read the early responses from Watson's answers. Right now, if Watson is generating a very long answer and I wan...
30 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted