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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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Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Update lsf.shared with up-to-date CPU models

The file `lsf.shared` provided with Spectrum LSF is outdated. The CPU models listed seem to be 10 years old and older and there don't seem to be any updates from IBM. I suggest that IBM regularly updates this file with up-to-date CPU models and me...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for live editing of the dialog while working with multiple people

As a conversation developer it would be nice to have functionality that supports working with multiple developers on the same dialog from different computers, without having to have refresh the browser screen every time.
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

allow CREATE FUNCTION with RETURNS TABLE to use SQLPL

Today (in V12 <and maybe earlier>) it is possible CREATE FUNCTION using SQLPL and RETURN a value (of any data type). This is pretty cool.. and powerful. This is useful to perform complex SQLPL operations inside the UDF (LANGUAGE SQL). For ex...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COMP - provide an option to write the output to a table

We have a lot of objects being uncompressed today and where we like to check, if compression would be usefull. Therefore DSN1COMP is a great tool, but it requires us, to check each output manually. That to much effort to do it for all uncompressed...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Searchable Tree Prompt

Either extend existing Tree Prompt or add a new insertable object that allows for text searching of elements in a tree prompt.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration