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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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Select / Deselect All Buttons for Table Selection Pane

When the Data Gate table sync screen is opened and a scheme is selected, all tables are automatically selected. This can be a burden if the user only wants to sync a small subset of the tables and must manually deselect the unnecessary tables, esp...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Cognos Viewer: Add right menu option to sort crosstab table ascending or descending on particular column

When report is executed and displayed in Cognos Viewer add right menu option on columns to "Sort ascending" and "Sort descending" option on column. When action performed crosstab should be sorted according to selected one column sort option. P.S. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Workspace Re-center on View includes title element or toggle to stop re-centering.

In Planning Analytics Workspace, when you have a book with a defined area that is larger than the current screen, and you have a cube view that is larger than the screen, and select something in the cube view for the first time, it re-centers the ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Connector option in Dashboard Module

Currently the connection option allows either connect or disconnect the dashboard elements to each other. It should also offer to make connection more flexible so that an element can be set on partial interactivity on a dashboard. Please read the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

CREATE TABLE ...LIKE support for AoT Tables

Currently, A CREATE TABLE statement must not contain a LIKE clause that references an accelerator-only table. It is documented in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_12.0.0/codes/src/tpc/n270.html
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Cube: there is no way to model a dimension such that members can move within a level without breaking a report

Reports (both professionally authored and business authored) break if they include members that have moved within a level. If a report is created with members, and these members move to a new parent, then that report will no longer run. There is n...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration