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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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Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Cache in memory dynamic cube data to restart dispatchers without having extended outages to load cube data

Currently our project has about 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups and using package routing. If we have to restart a dispatcher it can take a couple of hours to restart the cube. We do restart our cubes daily or weekly depending on the source ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ParamDisplayValue() doesn't display when a default is set and the report is sent over a schedule

Our product reports use in-report value prompts. when configuring the value prompt, we are setting the Use Value and the Display Value. For some prompts we then set a default value for the Use Value. We are then trying to use a ParamDisplayValue()...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Bulk loader feature in CP4D

In an application modernization scenario, using some cloud pak for data components, the customer needs to read (and write) a large amount of data on various data sources, including Teradata, Hive and Impala. In existing and production workflows in...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 Not under consideration

Support of .svg Images in Reports in PDF and Excel Format

Currently the .svg graphics/images are not displayed in the reports as pdf and Excel - Tested with CA11.0.9 (IBM Case TS001418175)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

use of wildcards for table selection with REORG,RUNSTATS etc

Certain utilities that most of the time operate on a (sub)set of tables like REORG and/or Runstats would be much easier to operate if the set of tables to be processed could be selected by means of wildcarding. The wildcarding should be enabled on...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Show contents of all cells in a Dashboard Table

In a dashboard table (list) items that are repeated from row to row will not display if the prior column has repeating values for the same two rows. When this happens in the middle of the row it can require scrolling to find what the displayed val...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bring back the stats cubes

Hi, Request to bring back the }stats cubes as they provided important information about memory usage and other performance statistics by IBM. removal of these cubes has left a void in debugging the system performance. thanks Saurabh
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide datasource name as a package property

Provide the ability for a user to view the package datasource name from the package properties within Team / Group Content.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration