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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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'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

In PAW, add option to overwrite existing asset/book when we copy/paste or move an asset to another folder

in Planning Analytics Workspace 'Report and Analytics', when trying to copy/paste or move an asset/book from one folder to another (for example from Personal to Shared, after having imported a new version of some report through Lifecycle Manager),...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

CSV format should cover all properties of Business Glossary to import them outside of catalog in CP4D V2.5 or later.

CP4D V2.1 allows Data Steward to import categories and business terms by using not only CSV format but also XML/XMI outside of catalog. XML/XMI format covers all properties of business glossary. - Import and export file formathttps://www.ibm.com/s...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Add unique user column to Cognos Audit database

The Cognos audit database only tracks a user the COGIPF_USERNAME. Having a field that is always unique and les likely to change such as an institution ID or email address would enhance audit reporting. It would also help avoid issues where users h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to control the bypassing of the authorization checking for mapping objects when dbname is used in REORG job

Implicit mapping objects are seen as transient as they get created and dropped within the duration of the REORG. Therefore REORG logic was enhanced to bypass the authorization checking for it (PI08339). These objects might be transient and interna...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rollup functions in Visualizations & Active Reports

The current visualization engine limits rollup methods for chart measures to Total, Minimum, Maximum and Average. This is great for multiple filter options on additive measures; but really does not support calculated measures (i.e. Margin %, Cost ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use CURRENT SCHEMA for EXPLAIN table SCHEMA

Currently the CURRENT SQLID is the only SCHEMA used by EXPLAIN processing. This is a real pain as changing the CURRENT SQLID is an auditable event. The use of SET CURRENT SCHEMA works for *all* other cases - Only EXPLAIN fails here. So the request...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide Configurability for Gantt Chart Labels

When you create a Gantt Chart on the OpenPages Dashboard, it frequently does not display labels for the X-axis in a useful way. If you take a look at the attached screenshot, the only month names that are displayed are Feb, Nov and Dec for the who...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Datastage pay-as-you-go model (similar to CUH) on Azure

Customer anticipates that they will be utilizing their infrastructure 25% of the year, and need the flexibility to ramp up/down on the number of cores used per event. Client as an organization does not want to pay for the downtime when infrastruct...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Allow auto-save to be turned on/off not only at pipeline level, but also at project level

Many of our users tend to open multiple tabs when editing pipelines and we are concerned that they may be inadvertently overwriting themselves. We'd like the ability to disable auto-save at the project level and not just within a single pipeline.
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration