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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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To implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Add Folder" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simu...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Please implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Copy to" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simultaneousl...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enhance the "Schema filter" field functionality for IBM Cloud Database for MongoDB.

It would be beneficial if this field could display a list of available schemas, as currently, a connection cannot be created without populating the "Schema filter" field. Often, users may not know the exact schema name in advance, so it would be i...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

REST API: return more object details

For the Cognos Analytics REST API to provide the ability to remotely and automatically administer Cognos Analytics, all information about objects must be available through the REST API. Please make detailed items like report specifications, data m...
9 months 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...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted