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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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Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Dashboard should mask data (Data protection rule)

Dashboards should be mask data based on the data protection rule, Problem: Even if certain data is masked in Preview or Refinery in the analytics project, Dashboard allows all collaborator to show its data. According the manual below, in the Dashb...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide certain report type in PAfE

It would be useful to have the ability to remove certain report types. It would simplify users adoption as there are 5 report types at the moment in PAfE. Also we could coerce users to use only a specific ones like Universal report or custom repor...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Record usage of application plan

In our production environment we have about 15000 application plans. Most of them are probably still used but a lot of them have not been used for several years. We want to get rid of the old ones not to have to rebind them at every new release of...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add ability to delete orphaned jobs on Platform

Currently, the only way to delete orphaned jobs is to remove the directories using these commands: rm -rf /data/pipelines/<pipeline ID> rm -rf /data/runInfo/<pipeline ID> Please add the ability to delete orphaned jobs for either the fo...
4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

Issue different return code when no rows loaded

We have an IDAA loader job that disables the table prior to the load to IDAA. Upon successful load of # rows, Loader will end with RC = 0 and enable the table for acceleration again. If the same process is run multiple times and results in "no row...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Feature to preserve offset between job runs and SDCs without enabling failover

Customer is requesting for an option in Control Hub to preserve the offset between job runs without enabling Job Failover. This is because they usually have only 1 SDC running at a time, but when they upgrade to a different SDC engine, they want t...
4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration