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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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Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

PAW rows or columns synchronization

It could be very usefull to synchronize explorations by dimensions in rows or dimension in column. For instance I've 2 cubes with a same dimension, if I display this dimension in row with element A B and C elements in a first exploration, it could...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics: Ability to expand the height of Dashboard Filter

Hi, I would like to suggest adding the feature to expand vertically the dashboard filter in Cognos Analytics to give a different view when filter is beyond the normal horizontal expansion. Regards, Regino Ilano
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

WKC data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters

As a Data Steward, I would like to:1. From the data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters such as: source system, environment, database, schema, table(s), column(s), data domain(s), subject area(s), criticality rating and other availa...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Export Job should allow for customization for sorting of data by attribute

When exporting the file customization on order in which the data is sorted would be useful for many purposes. Once example is sorting by oldest to newest so that loading the file into another environment allows transactions to be loaded in chronol...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration