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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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PAW report URL - possibility to assign alias (instead of using URL)

Deploy a PAW report to production environment without changing the URL of the report? Background: Updates of reports that are created with design features are saved as Chrome favorites by many end users. Deploying the changes with import functiona...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow CPD Admin to list all "Connection" objects and check whether tha connection is using Personal or Shared Credential

CPD allows user to create connection with Personal or Shared credential. By the default, the option is default to Shared Credential. Almost enterprise organization prevent their user to use shared credential, so there is a requirement to allow CPD...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Qualify Source Attributes in Dashboard When Defining a Drill Through

When defining a drill through for a widget in a dashboard, the items available for mapping to the target parameters needs to be qualified to determine the data source or metadata from which the item was associated with. In situations where you hav...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Foreign key with on update "cascade"

As part of the SQL 92 standard, there is a referential action for foreign key that allows to update on cascade. The following link is the SQL 92 standard:http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt In the Section 11.8, there is the f...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration