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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.

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Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search for a report by modified date leaving the report name blank

The Search feature: I cannot use the filter unless I first enter a name for the report I am searching for. I want to search for a report or dashboard I created, but I can't remember the name. But I do know when I created it. However, the Search fe...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the default source view of cubes

We'd like to be able to set the default source view of cubes in Report Studio. Currently, Member Tree view is the default source view in Analysis Studio. Similarly, we would like to have the default source view of 'show members only for dimensiona...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View package properties like datasources, my permissions, contents etc.

We should be able to see all the properties/options associated with a package, like, the package datasources, my capabilities, my permissions, package configuration options (modify/remove the package configuration), package contents, etc., like we...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Export a slice to Excel instead of snapshot.

AFAIK the Export to Excel function in PAW creates a snapshot of the Cube Viewer to Excel. Please add the feature to also export a slice to excel. It is possible in Cognos TM1 so I hope it will also be possible in PAW: Cognos TM1: https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Need DB2 LUW to support NUMA processor technology on Windows

The NUMA processor group technology is currently not supported by DB2 v10.5 and up for Windows. I would like IBM to add support for this feature in DB2 v10.5 and up as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of my server. (Currently runni...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration