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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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Load Metadata – change the default behaviour to “not selected checkbox” for the new tables

All new Tables receive by default a selected checkbox and therefore are being loaded by the next Load Metadata process, if they remain selected. If a lot of new not relevant Tables are coming, it means, that all of them should be excluded manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW charts: Fixed color for elements

Currently the color of a measure in charts changes depending on the values. It would be helpful to have a fixed color for a given measure. Example: Filter: Product A Actuals (500) - green Plan (100) - red Product B Plan (500) - green Actuals ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to Perform Source Management and Control

Watson Assistant would benefit greatly with course management and control capabilities. These would allow best practice development capabilities and process as are normally used in enterprise applications. Large organizations would benefit from th...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QMF for Workstation Build 20231206 - add a bind status message after executing bind.bat file

When performing a bind (bind.bat) using the Export Update Script feature in QMF for Workstation v13.1.1.0 Interim 1 Build 20231206 - during the bind process, it would be helpful to receive a message stating that the bind completed successfully and...
6 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Certify Informix 14.10 on red-hat 7

Our version of Informix will expire before our extended contract for red-hat 7, so we would like to upgrade the database in place to 14.10 from 12.10.fc13. Can you certify that? And give us a download for 14.10 that will not fail if we load it to ...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Read SQL from file in Teradata Connector Stage

Teradata Connector in CP4D does not have an option to read an SQL from File. Currently tenants are using different stages like Execution command and user variable in the sequencer to dynamically pass the SQL reading it from the file, we need an op...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

create a command allowing to update parameters inside a datastage flow or pipeline in a project

We are requesting an option to cpdctl dsjob command (suggestion) which would allow to change the value of the parameter in the datastage flow or pipeline (not to confuse with a Parameter or Parameter set or environment variable). After migration f...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review