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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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Changing the default save directory when saving a report or other object

when a user starts creating a report, he has to choose a package. so far so good.now when he wants to save the report, the default directory that opens to save the file is the directory of the package. That is not what we want.We want as default f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to clear all filters in dashboard with one click

I have a dashboard that has a dozen filters. I want to be able to clear all the filter selections with one click similar to the "Clear all" feature in the fields filter UI.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 4 Not under consideration

Using the TEST function, Need to Filter by Index Name or Table Name

Looking to convert an NPI to DPSI. Need a way to compare access paths of all SQLs that are currently using the NPI to What-if the NPI was not there (aka Virtual Index Delete). The TEST function (Dynamic Explain) currently does not allow filtering ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

For RPN TS, each partition reorged need a separate IC tape drive, need a way to limit the number of tape drives per iteration of REORG for the IC

If 65 partitions of a RPN with NPSIs are being reorg at the same time, 65 IC tape drives would be required. That is excessive and probably all shops can't support that. Even when no NPSIs, this would be a problem. HAA generates LISTPARTS 4096 when...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Cancel Running Report for all Users

It should be possible for all users to cancel their Report running in the background. With R10 the functionality to Suspend a running Report was delivered, but we also need the ability to Cancel their running Reports for all users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Retain grid view

Ability to return to the previous view and see it as the user had left it. Currently when we click on a e.g. a risk ID it opens a separate tab (which is fine) but when we return to the main page, the previous view is lost, and we have to start all...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Need API/Option to get deleted governance artifact details from trash similar to data assets

We need API/Option to get deleted governance artifact details from trash similar to data assets
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration