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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclusion of HTML navigation elements in webcrawl

As users of WDS are currently not able to use SDU on crawled web documents, it is impossible to use the field definition and exclusion function WDS provides to exclude unwanted results from the index. In our case, website navigation and footers cr...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Provide Management functions over Data Sets

Data Sets are currently stored in the Content Store. Much like what used to exist for My Data Sets, please provide an Admin screen to view and manage Data Sets. Alerts (event studio or other) that will warn an Admin of increases to Data Sets will ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Account description available in Controller web

It would be great to have the possibility to see an account description on one account in Controller Web.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Option to view Cube viewer and browse in classic mode(Like how it is in TM1 Architect/TM1 Perspectives) for PAw and PAx

This will be a good option for user adaptation from the TM1 Architect or TM1 Perspectives to the future tool IBM Planning Analytics Workspace(PAw) and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel(PAx). It simply provides an ease of user interface into TM1 Cub...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted