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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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Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to pre-filter data before dq rule execution

Currently we have a workaround using DataStage flows which is very complicated for end users to do themselves. We here in 2H 2023 there will be something using virtual tables?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Compile the datastage jobs on server side cmnd line

We have the client command line for job compile dscc.exe. Do we have the job compile command line on the server side such as dscc.sh? I could not find it on the server. Please add it to the server side.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Open PAX exploration report from PAW

Hi IBM, Sometimes it is more convinient to prepare a report in PAW but then one wants to do a more detailled analysis in excel. Is it possible to open a report created in Planning Analytics Workspace in Planning Analytics for Excel? ThanksDirk
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Cancelling of Run Process Threads

Threads started by using RunProcess in a TI cannot be cancelled when using the Admin tool in Planning Analytics Workspace. We use the RunProcess to enable multi-threading of some of our load processes. We had the system go into wait mode because o...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Prevent Data Entry into Consolidated Rule Driven cells within PAW/Architect

Long running thread is spawn when data is spread on a consolidated rule driven cell. If an Admin user does not notice the thread, a restart of the instance is required to kill this thread
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Customized abbreviation dictionary to improve data class assignment and searching for business terms

Capabilites similar to Erwin and other data modelling tools in which abbreviations can be expanded for search and for field name recognition. Ideally, each field could also have an automatic "expanded" or un-abbreviated alias. Column name ABS_VAL ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Search for "pacakges" is needed in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos 11 users can search for 'Reports, Folders, Dashboards, Data, Explorations, Notebook and other' but one of the most important objects "packages" is not on the search list. It is often "how many packages are in ...... cognos environment" b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists