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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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Published terms under category can be filtered, but the drafts can not - please add similar filtering functionality to drafts also

We have cases where there are going to be a lot of drafts, so filtering on the drafts is just as useful to us as of the published ones. In the screenshot you can see that filters exist for published governance artifacts. But if one chooses the "Dr...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Reorg Index materialization

For REORG INDEX pending alter materialization, the utility performs a DRAIN ALL on the target index before starting the SWITCH phase, and then relies on DDL/Dependency logic to invalidate all the affected plans/packages/DSC...etc in the middle of ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for Complex File Formats in Manta Lineage

So the idea here is to augment the Filesystem flow model and introduce the notion of file section by adding the notion of file section but make it optional. This means that a given customer could choose to model file with sections or a file withou...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

As a Business Analyst, I would like to be able to save my DataSet via Cloud connexion

To have a scalable native storage of dataset, I would like to be able to set as storage target the Cloud connexion defined for the IBM Cognos Analytics platform If the data files are in parquet format, it would be ideal
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Update DataSource connection details via a config file or DB sql

Our install is on WINOS and consider 'on-prem' type.we migrate our prod Cognos to lower non-prod by way of Oracle DB DMP export and then Import that into our target Nonprod env Cognos db.we have steps sql steps and UI operations to cull and remove...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted