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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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enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Delete Integration Functionality via CLI or API

We require a programmatic method to delete integrations as part of the Databand Automation, similar to the existing functionality for creating integrations via CLI. Currently, the UI only performs a soft delete, which means we have to reach out to...
about 1 month ago in Databand / Feature 0 Submitted

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a 'Created by' and 'Modified by' to PAW books in a 'Properties' menu

Hi! We manage an environment that has thousands of users and multiple developers (both internal and external). The environment is secured in a way where users have access to specific databases and no one should have access to more than one databas...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted