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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Fix Pack document to include if content store version is upgrading or not

Client wants to request that the fix pack release document should include the information about -- if the fix pack will be upgrading the content store version- if fix pack is releasing any new features or deprecating any features. Note - a fix pac...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

ability to programatically "apply" an SSL/MA configuration

We are using an SSL/Mutual Authentication configuration, and have written a utility that helps automate the conversion of a non-SSL/MA configuration to an SSL/MA one. For a single server install, everything works great. For a 3-tier install, we ar...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for new SAP BAPI function for query data more than 1M cells

Currently, when use Cognos BI query data from SAP BW. If the result is more than 1M cells SAP will return error message "BAP-ERR-0002 A BAPI error has occurred in the function module BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA. MDX result contains too many cells...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit data items in data tray in Cognos Analytics

We have a need to restrict the amount of information that shows up in the data tray.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Alphabetical Fonts

When using Cognos Analytics users are given the default fonts and google fonts. However, these fonts are ordered based on oldest to newest imported fonts. This leads to confusion of where the fonts are and should be organized alphabetically.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add Conformance for current Microsoft OLE DB Driver

Due to the fact that Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB) and SQL Server Native Client OLE DB provider (SQLNCLI) are deprecated - active support for the current OLEDB driver would need to be added. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Printing Uses User Credentials & Not Service Account

All printing requests to printers are sent using the account that the Cognos service is started against. This causes an issue for users who collect their printed output by providing a PIN. Their PIN relates to their own account and not the service...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cloud enable ADDI servers

Currently the servers for ADDI are set up to be physical or virtual machines. It is configured for that particular installation. Others that tried using the cloud solution had to build an image for that particular instance and had to build another...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration