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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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Need the ability to search in all text and all fields for natural language words.

The client needs to be able to search for some natural language works using index search (all text and all fields). Examples of words the client needs to be able to search are ""the"" ""so"" ""it""
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Index Search should show reports a user has created when their username is searched

Client knows that he can filter his search results to see objects owned by particular users. When you search the actual username in the search field however those objects aren't displayed. Client would like to be able to search on objects owned by...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube - Administrator vs. Data Security

Customer has the requirement to separate Data security from the rest of the security options. E.g. assume the customer has a partner who is performing system administrator tasks but should not be able to see confidential data which is limited to o...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Provide method to create Weighted Dimension in Dynamic Cube Designer

Client would like to have a means to create a Weighted Dimension in Dynamic Cubes. The requirement is such that whenever the specific members are added to a report the measure would be weighted. For example when Member ABC is added to the report a...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to uncheck Radio button for Member Description in Cube Designer

Member Caption and Level Unique Key are mandatory properties necessary for the level but Member Description is optional However once you select the radio button as Member Description you cannot unselect it. The only way to remove the selection is ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add modeling feature to Dynamic Cubes similar to 'weight factors' in TM1

We'd like to have a modeling feature added to Dynamic Cubes similar toweight factors in TM1. Per the TM1 documentation: ""Weight factors determine the contribution of an element to aconsolidation. To express that the Connecticut sales total is a s...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Dynamic cube deployment import / export

Customer wants dynamic cube deployment import / export feature: They would like to export the dynamic cube from dev and then import in prod like packages. An alternative could be to create an export and then have an option like ""export only dynam...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration