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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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Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) - Allow the use of subsets in the DBRW function

In Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) the DBRW Excel function does not allow to use subsets to retrieve data, but only dimension members, unlike with Planning Analytics Perspectives where the use of subsets is allowed in the DBRW function. At Bac...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION (USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED) - missing UPDATE support

For a new application we decided to use BIND option "CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION(USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED)". In this case we didn't expected to run into a timeout for a SELECT statement, but received the following error: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -911, ERROR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0.

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0. Classic corrects the above tiff error and FTM does not.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Rapid Job Update Tool to support Snowflake connector.

Walmart is upgrading to Snowflake , so they are trying to upgrade from Teradata to Snowflake. So Basically, what the ask now is we know there is a RJUT (Rapid Job Update tool) is available. Walmart is looking for some feature built by IBM using RJ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Can we make switching between Standard and TFUI easier and more obvious?

There is a menu option to switch to standard UI (the people icon) but not one that will then switch back to TFUI. RBS have created a menu item in Standard UI to do this, but users would prefer a common method with an easily identifiable way to switch
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Ability to Collapse or Expand ALL sections in task views

As task views can now be quite long, users are asking for a quick way to collapse and expand all sections so they can more quickly view the data
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Db2 disconnected System Assessment

At the moment Db2 AI for z/OS needs to be connected to do System Assessment.We've got a couple of Db2 production systems of different customers and our idea is to install Db2 AI for z/OS on one seperated lpar. The main purpose of this installation...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration