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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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Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add handling of carriage character

The API currently does not support handling of carriage character. While our UI does handle this, in cases where customers copy/paste data, we are unable to handle unless we build a custom handler to remove carriage characters. While we can implem...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

bjobs -o reserved_mem or bhosts -o reserved_mem

To see how much memory is reserved on a host, we need to parse the bhosts -l <hostname> command, and it doesn't give us info about which job is reserving how much memory. I'd either like to see one of the following: bhosts -o 'jobid reserved...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

online alter fragment

make it possible to run alter fragment online
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PASS/Websheets: Changing Zero Suppression value should force a REBUILD

Currently when you change the ZeroSupression parameter in a Dynamic Report (TM1RPTROW) it will cause a REFRESH, which is not enough to show/hide empty/non-empty rows. For this you need to manually do a REBUILD. In PAFE changing the ZeroSupression ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PASS/Websheets: better handling of %-inputs

In a websheet that was formated to "Show empty cell on zero values" (in Excel), currently if you input "20" in an empty cell that was formated as a percentage, the value will then show as "2000%". If there already is a value in that cell (i.e. "30...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

On a Dashboard be able to change the title of item added to a visualization. Plus Column heading size/wrap

In a report report you are able to change the column heading, i.e. Sex_Descr to Sex or Gender. Want to be able to do the same thing on a dashboard. Or Sex_Code to Gender_Code. Users sometimes want to change the title of a field and since you can't...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration