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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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SSO connection for Cognos Client Tools

Cognos Dynamic Query Analyzer and Cube Designer for windows does not provide SSO
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Testing, Development, Accessibility -. browser other than FireFox.

For Development, Testing, and Accessibility, I would like to request that there is another browser used possibly IE or Chrome, as Firefox in Canada is used by only 5% of the population and is actually blocked by many businesses. This makes it frus...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

An Easy way to create calculation based on 2 values on same Column.

Users often do calculations between periods or scenarios.When a package is multidimensional create a calcul between 2 members is easy. But this is not the case when a package is relational, create a calculation between 2 values based on same colum...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The function LENGTH () also for BLOBs / CLOBs

Unfortunately, there is no SQL statement that returns the size of the blob. You have to use an external program to get such information. I wish the sql function length() worked for BLOBs/CLOBs.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Inherited Access to Logical Data Model and its Entities and Attributes

The Business Users would like access to be granted at the Logical Model level, and this access be inherited by all Logical Model Entities and Logical Model Attributes, or access granted at the Logical Model Entity level and inherited at all Logica...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Copy and Rename Audit Log not containing target location

Currently, whenever a user Renames or Save As.. a report, this log entry only shows the source report, not the destination. So Can you have the Audit also create an entry of the target? Possible fix would be that an operation of MOVE or MOVE or MO...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration