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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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Enhancement Request: Return Empty Result Set for Restricted Parameters in Cognos Reports with Planning Analytics Cube

Background In Cognos Analytics, reports using Planning Analytics (TM1) cubes as a data source fail with an error message when users query parameters they lack access to due to element-level security in the cube. This disrupts the user experience a...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

JDBC connection with Kerberos not working

Unable to establish a JDBC connection from Windows using Kerberos authentication. Windows is supported and so is Kerberos so this should be working. IBM code doesn't take into account using API as ccache or MSLSA with credential guard. That is a c...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Cannot find a way to remove spark applications and history from analytics engine spark (cp4d).

The customer is using Watsonx.data with both Analytics Engine Spark and Native Spark. Over time, a large number of Spark applications and historical records have accumulated since last year. While there is a workaround to remove some records from ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Monitoring Data for Online Models - CP4D

Hello, we are requesting for info on online deployments. At the moment, we are able to get logs via nginx pods of the requests that come through a model, but more info would make a difference for customers. For example there could be a monitoring ...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Utilize SSL certificates in Platform Connections

External content stores are registered as Connections in CPD platform with the credentials and SSL certificates. However, the certificates are not automatically imported/copied when configuring an instance of Cognos. It requires an additional step...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted