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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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Export on Dashboard R7 only available to for author mode

We have a requirement to be able to export data from public facing dashboards. The drill through to report doesn't work because we can't change the default output from HTML to excel or CSV and the default setting on the report isn't used. The R7 e...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Visually Identify Fed and Un-Fed Cells with Cell shading

Create a feature to allow developers to turn on cell shading for Fed and Un-Fed cells. It is difficult and cumbersome to determine the level of feeding within a cube. It is difficult to understand how much over-feeding or under-feeding that is occ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add STET Feeder Feature

Create the ability to call out regions of a cube that are designated as to not be fed. With Rule language it is often the case that some Version are Calculated while others are not. Versions that are not calculated, such as archived versions, are ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change element icons within the content store navigation (as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x)

In Congos Analytics 11 it is not possible to change the icon for example of a report or folder as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x. If a user navigates through the Content Store he always see the same icons for reports or folders, it is not pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create DMR (dimension hierarchy) in Data Module

In Framework Manager, you can create a DMR. Can you add this functionality within a data module?
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to add URL in Dashboard / Story

Hi,We would like to be able to add clickable URL in Dashboarding tools.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Export Function for Model Revision Audit Log

Adding an export function to the Audit Log screens under Model Revision would allow users to easily/cleanly document their model changes outside of the application and provide a means of easily supplying such information to auditors or other non-u...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Features missing in DMC

1) We are not able to get the Display of DB Size for each database. Can you please help to get this enabled in DMC. 2) We are not having option to check the Backup status for each DB in DMC . Please help to get this enabled in DMC. 3) We would lik...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration