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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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Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

One View of All Users in Environment

Hi, So, we subscribe to 3 software with IBM Cloud - Planning Analytics, Controller and Cognos Analytics. Users are added in PA and then in Controller. Controller needs that we add users to Controller Users Group in the limited use BI. Since we use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Notification when user accepts invite

Normally we would expect that for an SSO enabled install in cloud, we have a few domains and all of them have been federated. However, in our scenario, like in many other clients' scenario, we have a problem. Not all of our domains are federated. ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dimension selectors to automatically select the first available member

We have used MDX (that refer to cube values) in dimension selector widgets to help users to restrict the available members in selection lists. This works fine except that when user changes a cube value that also changes the members returned by the...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a recycle bin to Cloud Pak For Data user interface

In Cloud Pak for Data assets can be deleted in Projects, Catalogs, Spaces, ... Once they are deleted, you can no longer restore them via the user interface. However, using the Watson Data API there is the possibility to see, delete and restore all...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration

IBM report studio: Running basic satatistics over a query result, without requerying the database

I need to be able to execute statistical calculations over a query result in Cognos and there are no functions currently. We need to be able to process statistical calcuations after parameterized queries execute and result sets are created. IBM SP...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADD CHUNK' OPERATION SHOULD RETURN WARNING THAT LEVEL 0 ARCHIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE

An 'add dbspace' operation returns the following warning upon completion: ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done. An 'add chunk' operation just returns 'chunk successfully added'. An 'add chunk' operation should also ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Native Network Encryption in MDM 11.6 Advaced Edition

PMR: TS000948369MDM Version: MDM V11.6DB Version: Oracle 12 COracle Parameter: SQLNET.CRYPTO_CHECKSUM_TYPES_SERVER=SHA256 We are using Oracle Native Network EncryptionWhen we enable OAS at DB level with ‘SQLNET.CRYPTO_CHECKSUM_TYPES_SERVER=‘ a...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

WKC needs to allow specification of access policies at the folder level within a data asset

a) We need to be able to set an access policy for a whole table that might be represented by multiple parquet files in a folder. b) We need to be able to set an access policy for all the files in a bucket.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

WKC recognizes multiple files in a bucket as a single data asset,

We need this because we want to be able to enter metadata only and access policies once for all files that comprise a data source. Specific examples: a) Uploading multiple pdfs needs to be able to store pdfs for a particular geo in a folder. Tho...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration