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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Spooler error/Query error issue

Widely used package - huge filter - 20-30 prompt pages - more or less - don't like to save in HTML, like to bring into Excel - User experience is.. run in Thoughtspot (6 mos of data), night and day - maybe cached, whereas Cognos runs seasonal/18 m...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Security Patching

Security fixes to be delivered separately from fix packs and easier to install (e.g., just a zap) for db2 connect. Large installation base require complex scheduling to get security patches updated. Security patching is critical due to regulatory ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Add maximal delay constraint for startBeforeStart, startBeforeEnd, ... constraints

I often have a constraint between interval variables that limit the maximum delay between the start/end and start/end of interval variables. I'd like a native, efficient method for implementing this constraint. I currently use constraints using fu...

Ability to restrict usage of an attribute defined at upper level mandator in lower level mandators in the mandator hierarchy

Currently client users can use all the attributes defined on the root mandator on rules and investigation queries . Certain attributes are defined at the root level are purely internal and we want to restrict the visibility and usage of this attri...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Open a Websheet as a new tab

Open a Websheet as a new tab from a link (using action button) within websheet in PAW Ex: A websheet published in PAW has a link to another websheet. In TM1 web when this link is clicked a new tab opens with the websheet. However, in PAW the new w...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted