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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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Update of SDK documentation for CA

The SDK for IBM Cognos has not been updated since 10.2.2. The current version of CA contains at least 12 new classes: ShowHintsEnumReportMetadataHistoryDetailMoserServiceBaseReportMetadataExplorationCustomizationDataSourceSchemaBaseModuleUploadedF...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAX - Show attributes in exploration view

The exploration view is the most common way to show a cube view in Excel. However, it is not possible to display attributes of the dimensions which in my opinion is a big restriction because it will force us to use a DBRA function, but it is not e...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Conditional automatic journals to post values on different from REPO journal types

When using conditional automatic journals, it is not possible to re-direct postings to a different journal type then REPO, even if puting it on "Journal type" field, on control table. Even if filtering Trial Balance to show only REPO/BASE, automat...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 8 Needs more information

Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

I use CDC Replication to send the data from IBM ISeries into Snowflake but after upgrading the JDBC Driver to 3.15.0 I started getting an error in the Table Mapping. The error is "Unknown datatype: TIMESTAMPZ". It is due to a couple of metadata co...
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Please ensure that no filters are applied when selecting ICOS during project creation.

When creating a project in watsonx.ai SaaS, there is a section where we can select Storage (ICOS). (Screenshot_Create a project.png) It seems that the filter applied on the previous Associate Service screen is also being applied to this selection ...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review