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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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In Pafe Slicing from the Cube Viewer should have more options or configurable defaults.

At the moment when slicing from the Pafe cube viewer you always get a worksheet added to the existing book. When slicing direct from a view in the task pane you get multiple options (new sheet, new book, at selected cell). We would prefer to be ab...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Needs more information

Autosave feature in Cognos Controller

We would like to request the addition of an Autosave feature in Cognos Controller, particularly when using the Data Entry function (integrated with the Controller Excel link) for entering reported company values. Currently, users experience data l...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Export MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation

We request to support export of MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation.
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Mandatory fields and attachments in plan tasks.

We are using the plans feature in Planning Analytics Workspace to submit KPI results that goes through an approval cycle. We are trying to create a data validation rule that prevents cells to be left empty, so we can be sure that the end users put...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Poor performance on DB2 V11.1 due to changes in build process

Some customers are noticing performance degradations moving from v105 ESE to v111 ESE on the same hardware.These degradations are most pronounced in OLTP workloads, with an emphasis on INSERT and UPDATE operations. Db2 Support has confirmed that t...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review