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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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Ability to edit Tooltips more easily (Dashboards and Reports)

Would like the ability to more easily edit tooltips in reporting and dashboarding. Currently you can add HTML items and javascript to add more to tooltips, however it would be nice if this was an out of the box feature.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
11 months ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Bulk rename for the record names

Once records are created, there may be an option to change the name of the record, however there is no method to do this in Bulk. For example, If we have created 3 risks with the name BSL_RSK_001, BSL_RSK_002 & BSL_RSK_003, there is no bulk or...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

further options and possibilities for the bubble chart

Hello, if I look right, so now, it is only possible to assign some keyfigures to the X/Y-achsis and to the size. Is it in plan to extend the possibilities for this chart, e.g. to define the basis for the size, to define min and max values, to edit...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REBUILD - After recovery of TS is NPSI improvement

Recovered SEMHNSA Partition 1 which has a NPSI. Rebuild has no idea that only partition 1 was recovered and rebuilds all the partitions for NPSI XEMHUNSA. Believe improvements need to be made to make the REBUILD know that only partition 1 needs to...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Is a defect

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Issue different return code when no rows loaded

We have an IDAA loader job that disables the table prior to the load to IDAA. Upon successful load of # rows, Loader will end with RC = 0 and enable the table for acceleration again. If the same process is run multiple times and results in "no row...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration