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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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Search for Skills in an instance or between instances

It would be very helpful to be able to search for a particular skill ID (or skill name) within (or better yet, between) instances. This feature would allow a user to search for a Skill ID and find where it's located in a instance (or where it appe...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Enable using comment lines in Transformer Derivations

When coding business logic into a transformer derivation it would be quite handy to be able to use comment lines like it is possible in SQL or any other programing language
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support multi-sort and multi-filters within Queries

The old UI supported multi-sort within query results but that is no longer supported in the new UI. Additionally, being able to further customize filters with multiple values or a "does not contain" option would be beneficial.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Add columns to the Rule Analysis table

The Rule Analysis table should include all of the columns supported within the Rules table, including Rule Conditions, Rule Conclusions, Priority, Ruleset, Ruleset Priority, etc.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Allow outputs to be used in profile computation and evaluation conditions

Output values which are stored within Safer Payments should be able to be referenced counters.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Internal notification process for changes to the API Instance

When many users are logged into the system and a change the active API instance is required (for example, switching the API from instance 1 to instance 2), administrators should have an option to deliver a notification to any active users advising...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 2 Future consideration