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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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Preconfigure Framework Manager and Transformer for Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated

When customers are onboarded to Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated, customers have the option to download, install and configure Framework Manager and PowerPlay Transformer. The configuration is cumbersome, time consuming and IBM supplies most ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Multiple file import on CC Web

A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Deleting an user from its only organization

Currently, we are unable to delete an user from its only organization. Ourselves and the customer both create new users very often for the development and testing purposes. After our tasks are completed, we are unable to delete the user and we are...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

SAP PACK, ODP Delta-initialization for classification datasources

We extract classification data from SAP , in intial-mode with ODP this takes about 10 minutes. Not being able to run the datasources in delta-mode this is a performance issue. I reported this bug as a case but this way was unfortunately not succes...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Suggestion for pop-up message in contributor application in Planning Analytics

As we are aware, in contributor application, when a user submits data in the lowest level node(zero), it gets populated by respective node contributor and submitted for further approval by reviewer (one level above). If the reviewer thinks the dat...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration