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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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PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Python 3.12 and 3.13 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX for 3.11 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.12 and 3.13.

Add Apple Silicon builds of Python binary wheels for CPLEX

The Python package for cplex on the Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files) only provides macOS binaries for x86_64, not for Apple Silicon. Please upload binary wheels for Apple Silicon. In my industry (astronomy, astrophysics...

Allow to change the background of the header to red color to attract users attention to the alerts like migrations or updates on the OpenPages

Users request to change the background of the header to red color to attract their attention to the alerts like migrations or updates on the OpenPages.Now we can only change the text of the header in the application texts, but for users it's not e...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

DCC graphics - Change the range date

We would like to choose a date range. Currently, there is no way to change the range. Db2/zAI path:Distributed connections Priority levels Location Plot statistics Thanks, Remo
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Data Set refresh though batch job

Data sets are having scheduleing properties to get refresh, However instead of defining individual data set refresh schedule it would be much helpful if we can use cognos jobs to include multiple data sets in a single batch and schedule refresh.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

For sysprocplan add reason for last change/recompile.

For sysprocplan add reason for last change/recompile. E.g. nidexname dropped, tablename changed version. Indexname changed version. This would help when sysprocplan changes keep being logged.
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted