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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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Progress bar while running a report

Oftentimes, when we are running a large report (that could take for example 10 minutes), we would like to see the progress of the loading of the report. This way, we could see if the loading got stuck, or if a report still needs only 1 minute, or ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically change page view in reporting

Currently in Cognos Analytics, when I change the Start page view in Reporting, I need to save the report, exist, and re-open to see the new page view. I understand it's called 'start page view', however it'd be great if this updated on the fly rat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option

Support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option.Today the situation is describe in the pmr:"Once it's decided not offloading at bind time, REOPT(ALWAYS) won't change the offloading decision."
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Creating new dashboards from old reports

It would be great if we could either pin a report and be able to select it into a new dashboard. Or, have the ability to copy a report, or report object, and be able to paste into a new dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore IIS gateway dispatcher redundancy functionality to behave like previous cognos versions

In cognos 11 the iis gateway requires the use of url rewrites to create a reverse proxy to work. This hard codes a single dispatcher per IIS gateway. The workaround suggested by support would require a dedicated IIS instance per dispatcher and loa...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Allow the maintenance of Metadata Libraries in panel CCQPHLQ

I think it's normal if you added a row in a table that you may need to delete it or update it. For instance, I added few metadata libraries that I don't need them because I am not going to configure them. there is no option to delete them. Any one...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use Reportpath() function to construct url in Cognos Analytics

Reportpath() function returns the path of the report as /content/folder[@name=""]/report[@name=""] and this was used to construct report url dynamically in C10.2.2. but this path cannot be used to construct url in cognos analytics as the url const...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Progress Vizualization for Running a TI Process using PAW Button

Users are not informed/aware on the progress of running TI Process via PAW button. When the TI process runtime is taking more than 5 mins, PAW shows no sign of activity, users think that either the TI is done or the page hang.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration