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


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Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries. At the moment, normalization is done from a generic dictionary, and it is important for clients to have normalization done from their dictionaries.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

disable dialog node

One of the issues i have when i test things out is i often need to delete a dialog node to verify if something works. Deleting a dialog node with a lot of configurations such as conditional checks, detailed answer, jump to conditions etc is making...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Temporal Joins

Temporal table and Time Travel Queries are a powerful functionality which is not yet supported in Db2 although it has been introduced many years ago. The Join stage needs to be extended for Business-Time otions like "FOR BUSINESS_TIME FROM '1990-0...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics 11.x SDK support for .Net Core 6

Infor utilizes Cognos in a Multi-Tenant Cloud environment. All of the Infor applications running in our MT Cloud environment are required to handle standard API calls that are required to add/update/delete a tenant within that application. There a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Enable instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index (non-root)

Per IBM instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index are only supported for indexes on the ROOT segment. This severely impacts performance for DVM access to IMS data which performs well via IMS using secon...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Ability to connection to Google Analytics and Bing Analytics

Can we have ability to connect Google Analytics or Bing Analytics with Cognos, to report numbers and amounts.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

No checkboxes on prompt page

In CA11 the check box options are not available on the prompt page when we create "Context filter" and apply "Prompt on Hierarchy" in CA. In Cognos 10 there was a check box selection and the customer was able to select the check box and was able t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration