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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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Chose color for different columns

We want functionality where we can choose color depending on some criteria’s. Example We have a column which contains information if the household is a partner, single men, or single women. This data will be shown in a pie chart were the size depe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Print all company journals for a group, including subgroups

Possible to print a report of company journals for a specific group including all subgroups and companies below.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Write-back from a Cognos Analytics report into Planning Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics needs to be able to write-back int TM1/Planning Analytics database. This is necessary not only to reduce the amount of tools a business user dealing with planning and actual data needs to use, but also to allow Cognos the use ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make "Run As" option available to Shortcuts

In Cognos 10.2.2, report consumers have the ability to select the "Run As" option from shortcuts, allowing the user to select the output format and delivery option prior to executing the report. In Cognos Analytics 11.x, this option is only availa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration