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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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open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

OpenPages Audit Management Sampling

Sampling Requirement; 'Open Pages IAM should provide a medium to gather population from external system & apply sampling techniques and reverse sampling techniques to generate sample tests for audit planning, IIA recommended sampling technique...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Add the column name to sqlcode -407

When there are many columns in the sql and there are many rows that affected by the sql, it is very difficult to found the problematic column.For example, if it is an INSERT statement with fullselect, or UPDATE statement that update many rows with...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Command to resolve in-place alters

Have a command "UPGRADE_IPA" which can be run against a table/fragment to resolve in-place alters. This should have an online option which utilizes small transactions.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Private topology to enable non OCP admins to perform admin tasks on CP4D clusters

Customer requires strict separation from OCP admin and CP4D admins. cross-tenant ‘cluster level’ components — like the license service, cpd-scheduler and cert manager (RH or CPFS’s) would need a cluster admin to manage Each CP4D tenant would have ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Optionally providing a larger search results area

An optionally larger search area is required for customers with larger Content Stores. This can be provide on a global level.The search area can be expanded either within the existing window or in a new browser tab. This would solve the current li...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, Data Item Nameing please remove the additional '_' in the naming standard

By default when creating a data module, Data Items have a underscore replaces a space between words. There are some instances where an underscore will be added after a data item name when there are no spaces. 'Number_' or 'Count_'. The reason I a...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration