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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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Create map with zip codes

Limited number of zip codes are currently supported for maps. We need a full set of zip codes in order to use the map functionality. Right now zip codes are showing as unrecognized location, even for major cities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Preview Support for Hadoop and Hive with Kerberos

Customer has Hadoop / Hive with Kerberos/Ranger enabled and wants to run MDE and publish the results to a catalog. Ford connected to Hive and ran MDE and published to a catalog succsessfully. However, when Ford tries to preview data in the catalog...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Merge Excel , CSV with OLAP sources (TM1/SAP BW)

Merging someone's personal data file with corporate data sources is quite a common requirement from all businesses. Cognos Analytics Data Modules is a very good answer to this requirement. However OLAP datasources are not included. But users like ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable selection display or hide data item in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not select which items should be shown or hidden in table view. For exampl...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Show description in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not see other information about detail of the assets(such as description) ...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration