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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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Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Change of skipping rows rule, when calculation is in use.

Right now skipping rows doesn't work, when in use are f.e. two elements, where one of them is equal zero and a value of a second one is different than zero. When calculation in Workspace is executed and value is equal to zero, also when we see an ...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

"Ghost" record downstream mitigation via CP4D filter

In our downstream systems, any ghost record that is generated in CP4D (currently being tackled by IBM engineering) is also part of the payloads sent out via ds jobs. This is causing technical issues in connected systems that are flattening the pay...
2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Separating configuration from MDM/MDMUI/BPM containers

While migrating from one DC to another DC with IP change and other configuration changes, we need to go for fresh installation which should not be the case in containerized environment.
2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Backups to use temp dbspaces with most closlely matching page size.

For backups store the before images it temporary dbspaces which most closely match the pagesize of the dbspace being backed up. Presumably this would be more efficent. E.g. If backing up a 16k dbspace prefer putting before images in a 16k,8k or 4k...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

CPD Cognos Analytics does not allow report ‘save to file’ in external managed NFS.

Customer WestPac requires an emergency fix to CPD Cognos Analytics service. The Cognos feature that Westpac is requesting is under investigation by the Cognos dev team. The feature is already available in our traditional Cognos deployment but not ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Add timestampPrecisionReporting option to resultset.getDBTimestamp and resultset.getTimestamp to get trailing 6 number places after the decimal as has been done with resultset.getString

In IDz DB2 for z/OS Connections, we return the result of 3 methods to show the timestamp in our tables.Two of the three entries lack the last zero.With the timestamp type data in the presentation of the result of the execution of a db2 query if a ...
2 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted