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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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Current date to filter dashboard/report by default

Have a current date that globally can filter reports/dashboards without having to manually select it. When running a dashboard it should automatically be filtered for current day/week/month/year if thats in the dashboard
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard - Bar Chart - allow the user to toggle Measure values between VALUE and Percentage of Color

Assume you have a Dashboard widget which shows a breakdown by Gender. If the requirement is to show values and also Values as a % - we have to create two separate Widgets. The user does have the option to change VISUALIZATION... but it would welc...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IF NOT EXISTS should not be saved as part of stored routine source

When creating a stored procedure or function with the IF NOT EXISTS optional clause included, the option text is currently included in the saved source code for the procedure. This is not true of any other database object created with the IF NOT E...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Support for Drill Through to URL/CA Reports

Planning Analytics needs to support more drill through options outside of Turbo Integrator. For example users should be able to drill through to a report rendered in Cognos Analytics. This could be accomplished by supporting a URL basesd drill thr...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENDUR command for all the subscriptions

Recently, we have been troubled with long running URs. Because of this, all of our subscriptions failed with staging space memory errors. In this case we needed to modify the cdc agent with ENDUR command. However, this command can be entered for a...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Summary Options Crosstabs in Dashboards

Users need more summary functionality besides just "hide summaries". We want to be set whether to summarize the rows and columns, just the rows, or just the columns. We also want to be able to display the summaries at the top of the columns or beg...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past without the need to have previously saved a reporting period (snapshot). It should ideally roll-up all data changes occurred in the database till ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Snowflake Connector Error handling

1) We encountered an issue while using the insert or update option. The continue on error option does not work and the job fails if it encounters bad data. We opened a case with IBM. There is no reject capture mechanism. Workaround: Two step solut...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

Drop STP SQL with dependency of other STP SQL type NATIVE

We have a general purpose StoredProcedure (STPX1) that is called by other native StoredProcedures (STPA1, STPA2, STPA3, etc) that have CALL statements to STPX1, If I need DROP the STP STPX1 (for recreate later) I receive the error -478 for depende...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration