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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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Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Maintain Profile name for fields exported with Field Definition option

When migration releases between OpenPages environments, customers would need to export individual fields that were created in the source environment and import the fields to the target environment. Customer does not want to export the full object ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

OPTIMIZER IGNORE INDEX indexcreator.indexname

Looking to replace NPI with DPSI. DSPI is created, and would like to verify that all SQLs that were using NPI, when Rebound/executed dynamically would either a) use either newly created DPSI or another index on the table and b) have run time perfo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing or expansion of private/personal filter dropdown

On the task-focused UI when creating a private/personal filter, the size of the dropdown is fixed. When a long value is listed on the dropdown list, users are not able to see the full text. For instance, the dropdown list value is "Supercalifragil...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration

Long Identifiers (128 bytes) in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

Long Identifiers in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Oracle 12.2 increases the maximum size of most identifiers from 30 to 128 bytes. https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/long-identifiers-12cr2
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Rest API Native View Skip Consolidations

The native view entity object of the rest api does not include the skip consolidations property. This complicates things when copying native views with the rest api. I realize architect/perspectives will be deprecated at some point and native view...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to use complex logic on parental criteria

Ability to tailor grids and dashboard views based on parental logic. This would make the data presented to users tailored and targeted.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Dynamic history configuration

To switch current history configurations one has to restart NPS system which takes a large amount of time on big systems.
about 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

Ability to Disable and Enable Users

We currently have a certain number of users for our Planning Analytics Cloud Environment, during our budget cycle, we would have additional users entering their budget. Would like the ability to just pay for them on an as needed basis(typically 3 ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration