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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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Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Populate DSSIZE for ALL pagesets to simplify monitoring and avoiding pageset full conditions

The rules surrounding the maximum size for any given pageset have become more and more complicated over recent releases of Db2. This severely affects our ability to monitor for pageset full conditions, as while it is relatively straight forward to...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Lighter Weight db2fodc -hang

Db2 Support often asks customers to collect db2fodc -hang to investigate hang issues. This is an heavyweight command that causes severe impact to customers' workload. We need a lighter weight db2fodc -hang command that allows users to input an app...
about 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration