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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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Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Ability to control interactive mode on list/charts/crosstabs level

Although the new interactive mode is a great enhancement it is only possible to switch it on/off on the report level. When it is activated all data containers are interactive (charts/lists/crosstabs) giving the user all capabilities available. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Edge Chromium for Cognos Analytics

Our Company has rolled out Edge Chromium has the default browser but this browser is not yet supported. Although it worked fine for v11.1.4, it gives issues in v11.1.7 when creating a new report or editing an existing report (cannot reasd property...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Enhance SQLCODE SQL3015N details

When we receive the following error message (during LOAD): SQL3015N An SQL error "-551" occurred during processing. we only know, that it is an authorization issue. The detail information (authorization-id, operation, object-name) are not availabl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic of the custom nodes

want a way to distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic of the custom nodes. Currently, when custom nodes are distributed, people can see the logic of the node. want a way to distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic, for exa...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Inactive User Designation within the UI

Raised on behalf of client: When working with inactive users there are a number of advantages to be able to see when a User select field is populated with a user who has been marked as an inactive user. We would like to be able to achieve some of ...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

PAW Exploration View Custom Column Headings

PAW Exploration view, would like the ability to construct custom column heading names and arrange for cleaner reporting display. Often using a stacked column dimensions, the column heading may show repeated elements, or displaying stacked colum...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW - dynamic images

There is a PAW book with Selector and Image, and URLs stored as the dimension attribute. It would be great to be able synchronize the image widget with the selector. So when the client clicks on the element in the Selector, the URL gets passed to ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration