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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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Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

pass a parameter through to dashboard link/url

As a user of the CRM system, I want to view a screen for a given Customer ABCDE and click on a Cognos Dashboard URL and let the session dynamically pass the variable ABCDE into the Dashboard URL so that the Cognos Dashboard opens up already filter...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Format Negative numbers in parentheses in dashboard

We have cognos analytics 11.1.7FP2. We wanted to change the way negative numbers are displayed on a dashboard. IF there are negative numbers like -2567 we want to be able to change the format and show it as (2567) on a dashboard. It works fine in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

temporary catalog table

Creating a temporary catalog table could be useful in various situations to restore certain numbers of rows to their original state. Using the example of SYSSEQUENCES, it could be possible to perform a row-based recovery in the event of an error w...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.1.7 Dashboard: Disable automatic grouping in tables

The automatic grouping can become confusing in the table. In addition, the text is centered horizontally in the grouping.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Run a TI process upon open or close of PAW book.

We currently store user settings for a PAW book in a cube which is subsequently used to manage subsets and other elements in the book. Basically, to create guided user experiences. It would be very useful to have the ability to run a TI process up...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Restful API call needs to support array data types

Currently the RESTFUL API Db2 service does not support array data types as part of the call statement.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration