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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide option for dispatcher URL from past activities under My Schedules and Subscriptions

My Schedules and Subscriptions menu item is typically allowed for all consumer users with scheduling capability. Under Past activities window, report run details shows target dispatcher (URL) report run against, which shows app server name/IP and ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Exclude content of hidden folder from search results

In many cases, security requirements dictate hiding a folder from users even though they have read and traverse permissions to it. Content of such folder should not be returned in any search results.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

32k limit creating Data Group in Data Module

There is a 32k limit on number of items shown when creating Data Group in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Module. The limitation also includes the ability to search items outside the first 32k. So basically, if you have a data source with more than 3200...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support rendering of Mapbox maps in PDF with "show values" property

Map visualizations are rendered in the browser as HTML but the ability to render maps showing values in PDF would increase adoption among our client base. This will be especially true when custom polygons are supported. The initial zoom level (e.g...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automating Java Code Fixes in WCA4z with Agentic AI

Business Challenge Current Limitation: The WCA4z tool transforms legacy code into Java. However, the transformed Java code often contains syntax or semantic errors that require significant manual intervention to fix. This process is time-consuming...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

links in downloaded documents

Many analysis results are shown in PDF documents with links. These documents are lengthy, so it is good to be able to download them to work on it over several days. However, the links between the parts of the document are lost when downloading it....
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Program Callgraph. Where files are used

The graph that shows the program callgraph is very good, but when using it to see where the files are being used, it does so by the label in the program. In our case, that label tends to be generic (e.g. FSALIDA, means exit file). By using the lab...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Field Expansion Report.

ADDI analyzes the target variable and the parent record. This is fine, but from the parent record, it jumps to all the other variables in the copy. This greatly broadens the result and adds complexity to the analysis. The only impacts from the par...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review