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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Tool for Cubes (Dimensional Data Source) add option for Members Only view in insertable objects pane

Make it easier to use our existing cubes (dimensional data) in Dashboard tool to only see the Members Only view in the insertable objects. This option is available in the reporting tool. Right now not having this view makes the dashboard too cumbe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent User Login

It is observed that the application does not validate the number of active session each user has. wherein an unauthorized individuals using valid credentials to logon to the application at the same time as the legal user. This might result in a va...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Alters to objects that require reorg to material should be put into advisory reorg, such as PCTFREE

If an alter is done to a TS to PCTFREE and a REORG is not run, then the catalog is updated but the change is not materialized. This results in the DBA thinking it was done, but it really wasn;t.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set and edit saved parameters on Data Sets

We have a data set that contains prompt parameters to filter the results. We would like to be able to set and edit user saved parameter values without having to edit the data set. Similar to reports and report views, it would be great if we can se...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy a tab from one dashboard to a another dashboard

I would like to have an option to copy whole tabs from dashboard 1 to dashboard 2. I know the option pins, but that is only for items. The option copy tabs is necessary for my management dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Trigger support for BLU tables

Trigger support is part of many replication technologies e.g.- ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE- trigger based Qrep- SAP zero downtime upgrade
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration