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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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Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
6 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Manta Data Lineage: Support LDAP/AD Authentication for Redshift Connections

The current version of Manta only supports local account authentication for Redshift connection but does not support Azure AD authentication. Requesting that Manta supports the ability to authenticate Redshift connections with AD/LDAP users.
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Questionnaires via REST API

Questionnaires via REST API Currently there is no REST API to pull the Questionnaire Question and responses using the REST API. only option is Cognos. Which is not helpful to get the real-time data.
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review