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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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Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Understanding usage of catalog assets by business users interacting with the catalog

It would be good to understand if our cataloged assets are actually being used by business users. Which Assets are being used more than others. This would allow us to plan for future resource allocation and what we need to keep in our catalog vs w...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow Secondary AUTHID and Patterns in AUTHID column of the RLF tables

In order to make administration of the RLF tables easier, we would like to be able to enter a Secondary Authid or an ID Pattern. Secondary AUTHIDs would allow us to use definitions in the Security Manager to accommodate resource limits for many ID...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cubeview Expand functionality with disabled borders on selection

Expand is a new functionality available for cube views & visualizations, but it's currently tied with new selection borders functionality, available always in Edit mode and when Show selected border in preview is enabled. What I'm looking for ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW Action Button Improvements

Actions buttons have recently improved but we would need 3 more functionalities : From book to book , ability to close the source Book For processes, ability to synchronize parameters with dimension selection widgets Have a success messag...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release