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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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Frozen crosstab columns and rows in Cognos reports as a default

In current Cognos Analytics versions it is possible to freeze crosstab columns and rows in reports by right-clicking them. Could it be possible to add report feature that you could set crosstab columns and rows as frozen already when designing rep...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Folder for assets

I have more than 1000+ script & data, it is hard to managed. In my local environment, there is a file-system so that I can create folders/sub-folders to put the assets in right position but it is not on CPD.
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 3 Planned for future release

Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Read-only users for CP4DS and NPS Consoles

We need to give access to the CP4D and NPS consoles to production teams for the monitoring and diagnosis of the systems, without them being able to make any configuration changes. For this, it would be necessary to be able to create non-administr...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Planned for future release

Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search results remain on the screen

In home screen, when client select "Team Contents Folder" and search the report, the result is displayed. Once we go to another screen and return to the report selection screen again, the search results are displayed. At that time, we want to be a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve access plan resolution for SELECT MAX() (or MIN()) statements on range-partitioned tables with local (partitioned)

Context: range partitioned table with partitioned indexes A SELECT MAX() statement is issued on a field that is not the part of the partitioned key. The query is resolved by performing a full index scan on a partitioned index on that field. That i...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 3 Not under consideration

Allow functional admin users to create or update existing chores without ADMIN rigth

Avoid functional administrators to be able to update the codes (TI processes, cube rules, security) by removing the ADMIN right but by doing that, functional admin are not anymore able to update/create chores, which is very important in their acti...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, t...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Disable email options for specific group

Disabled email options for specific group
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration