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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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Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[TM1Web] Password Expiry Prompt

When password expiry approaches, TM1 Perspective will prompt the users to change password upon login, we are expecting TM1Web to behave the same, but found out it is a missing feature of TM1Web. Not all users are allow to use TM1 Perspective, ther...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to edit Tooltips more easily (Dashboards and Reports)

Would like the ability to more easily edit tooltips in reporting and dashboarding. Currently you can add HTML items and javascript to add more to tooltips, however it would be nice if this was an out of the box feature.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a Cell Security Check Function, similar to CellIsUpdatable, but retuning READ/WRITE/NONE based on the client access.

In our models, we allow users to run TI processes to move data from a generic Staging Cube to the final Planning Cubes. The staging cube accepts free text input as the target dimensions which makes harder to implement security directly on that cub...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Name of relative times in the Query using dynamic cubes

When using the relative times from a dynamic cube, the name of the period doesn't change in the query. The report show the right period when running the report, but it shows the period from the time of the report building date.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration