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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IBM OpenPages Cognos Framework is missing the IS_LOCKED field

The OpenPages Cognos reporting framework is supposed to include a field called 'IS_LOCKED' for each object. This field has a value of 0 if unlocked and 1 if locked. It is NOT present in the generated framework. The field is in the underlying RV...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Dynamic Children Section in Admin View should include Copy Associated action.

The new Admin View in 8.3 allows us to add the Dynamic Children section, which shows all the child relationships for the object (similar to the "Associations" listings on the left side pane of the old standard UI). This is great as it allows us to...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Add separate permissions for metadata enrichment areas in an import project

WKC projects in 4.5.+ use metadata import areas and metadata enrichment areas. Access control is only available at the full project level. In some instances, individual groups of tables need to be enriched by one set of SMEs and other table groups...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration