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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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Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Visualization "Validate Bundle" Error on Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics (Cognos V11)

IBM Cognos Analytics Visualization Customizer (Cognos Analytics - Cognos V11) Error thrown by the Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics when you try to validate a bundle. Note: This only occurs in Cognos V11 Visualizations when opened thro...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view. If we choose All Roots then we will be able to do the search for all members. Default view not pulling any results if we search for leaf attribute. SEV 1 IBM Case was opened for thi...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Passing Data item value on a line chart

When we have a line chart and have drill through. Cognos passes parameter or the data item which is a part of the graph. The requirement is to pass data item which is not part of the chart. In my requirement, I have a data item (hierarchy) of a di...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration