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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Extension summation of accounts

The summation for accounts is limited to three summations. It would be highly desirable if the summation would be extended up to 5 or 6 summation accounts. The IFRS standard setter plan to introduce a new structure for the profit & loss and th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow selection of a Planning Analytics subset for a Tree prompt's default

Currently, when I try to set a Tree prompt's default selection property to a subset in a Planning Analytics data source's dimension, it is not allowed. This behavior is not preferred... selection of a subset should be available.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to load semi-additive in-memory aggrates in cognos dynamic cube

Hi,At this point of time, IBM cognos dynamic cubes 10.2.2 doesn't support loading of in-memory aggregates for semi-additive and calculated measures. Financial and HR clients mostly show balances and headcounts as of last period in BI Analytics. Wi...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Smart Trigger API for Java to monitor smart trigger session changes at the backend DB

The Smart Trigger Java library allows for the use of a detachable session which is assigned a session ID. One can use this session ID to reconnect to an existing session when starting up a Smart Trigger. But, if for some reason this session ID in ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add slicer capability to user-defined in-memory aggrgates for Dynamic Cubes

Slicer capability exists for in-database aggregate definitions within IBM Cube Designer. The same capability for user-defined in-memory aggregates would allow for better control over fine-tuning performance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement Oracle "Flashback Database and Restore Points"

Implement same functionality as Oracle Flashback Database and Restore Points. There regular procedure to restore data with Informix is to restore either the entire instance or some dbspaces. This procedure can be very long (5 hours+) when high dat...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration