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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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Drill Through to Database Table - Excel Export

A Drill-Through in PAW to a database table will open a window where the user can export the data to a CSV file. An English user can open this file with Excel and all columns will end up in the right place. A non-English customer will need to conve...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Correctly calculate measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes.

IBM Cognos 10.2.2, Dynamic Cubes have a data integrity issue whereby they do not correctly compute measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes. A warning is issued in Cube Designer. The consequence is that if business users bu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Incorporate names for data tables in PowerPlay Studio where information in a cell requires a row or column header to adequately describe the cell’s contents.

Why is it Useful? PowerPlay Studio Accessibility enhancement: Currently, there are no header and cell association for data tables created in the workspace area of PowerPlay Studio. For screen reader technology users, the reading order of a data ta...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Incorporate title attributes for frames inside PowerPlay Studio to assist screen readers with navigation and understanding its content.

Why is it useful? PowerPlay Studio Enhancement Request: Currently, there are no title attributes for Frames generated by PowerPlay Studio interface. Incorporating accessible names will enable screen reader users to decide whether they want to navi...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enable Keyboard only accessibility for PowerPlay Studio toolbar menu and content in the workspace area (without requiring use of a mouse)

Why is it useful? PowerPlay Studio Enhancement Request: Many users with motor disabilities and assisted technologies users may find it impossible to move or hold a pointing device with enough accuracy to activate desired features. For these users,...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enable Skip to Content accessibility enhancement for folder navigation in the Cognos Analytics Portal

Description and why is it useful: Currently, “Skip to Content” functionality allows screen reader users to skip Application and Navigation bar menu to an open report or dashboard. The enhancement request is to apply same functionality to navigate ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Load into util next to a reorg

As discussed in IDUG EMEA 2023 Praag, i gave a presentation about reorg a big table that took 8 days. If the table cant be accessed, a recover to that point would take 6 hours. So table created at front that can have the data already loaded until ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration