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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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Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enable non-admins to edit global color palettes

In the current versions of Cognos Analytics it is only possible for system admins to create, alter or delete global color palettes. Creating a capability would give power users the ability to edit the color palettes used in their dashboards withou...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Display Workbench tabs on left hand side down the page

Is it possible to display workbench tabs down the page on left hand side instead of across the top of the viewer? Often the occasion when up to 15 to 20 tabs can be in use and navigation is very clunky, and more difficulty when trying to move rela...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Accessible Prompts

We need all prompt types to be accessible and 508 compliant. We have reports that require a user be able to input a date range, but IBMs documentation indicates the calendar date prompts are not accessible.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Add Totals in stacked column / bar chart for every bar or column

Within Dashboard we require very often at stacked column or bar charts, that the total of all stacked cetagories is visible above the bar or column. Currently we can only enable / disable the values for every stacked cel directly at the bar. But n...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Java 17 Version of madapi.jar/InfoSphere MDM

Allstate has an AppFabric upgrade which includes Java 17 that we all need to complete for all of our Paas1 and 2 Services before end of Q3 due to compliance. Some of these Services call InfoSphere and therefore use the current version of the madap...
4 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted