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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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Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...

Cognos Analytics integration with Sharepoint

We would like IBM to take up and provide a detailed solution on how to integrate IBM Cognos Analytics 11 with SharePoint
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Email client support

Scheduled emailed reports coming out of Cognos Analytics 11 are getting truncated when viewing in email. The attached PMR ID has all of the screenshots. We've been told by IBM support that email clients haven't been supported in Cognos Analytics (...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

PAW Pass Context - option to not pass Set

When you use the PAW button for navigation and select to Pass Context, it not only passes the Selector dimension element but also the set. Is there anyway to only pass the element and not the set? We have PAW pages where the sets are different, bu...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Have a full IBM supported Planning Analytics - CPLEX (Decision Optimization) API

Today TM1 / Planning analytics customers and partners who add CPLEX / decision optimization on top of PA rely on several routes: Turbointegrator tm1py An IBM contribution https://mediacenter.ibm.com/media/t/1_4jr4kuid Another IBM contribution http...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release