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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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139 VOTE

Support web services as data sources

Allow a Cognos report or dashboard to retrieve data directly from the JSON end point of a REST based web service.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Use a report as source to create a dataset

Starting from a package , a new dataset can be created. But i'm missing some features to assemble my new dataset. Only filtering is possible. Why it isn't possible to create a dataset from a report ? In reporting we have a lot more possibilities (...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Delivered
106 VOTE

User def. filter options for lists in report authring should be the same compared to filter in package tree

The user-defined filteroptions are different using rightclicking a package element and using the user-defined filteroptions for elements in lists (especially text fields) using report authoring module.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Dynamic _as_of_date

The _as_of_date functionality works great and makes relative dates so much better. However, the inability to set a dynamic _as_of_date is a challenge. For example many customers have data warehouses that load based on yesterday's data. These custo...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cascade Prompts on filters on Dashboards like reports

We are creating a dashboard that might become public, one of the tables tells has a field for Regular and Temp and it has corresponding field tell us the class. Some classes can be found both regular and Temp. So when we drop the Class field into ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Add Action Button Object to PA Workspace

All of our customers using Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) needs to load data using TurboIntegrator (TI) processes. Today, it's necessary to build a new Websheet, using Perspectives, with an Action Button for each process to be added to the a s...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

IBM does not support SSL communications for 2-phase commit (DB2 & MQ)

TS010796788 : DB2 - SSL - Two-Phase commit failures We are mandate to close unsecured connections to DB2 by closing the TCP/IP connections to DB2. However, we are using 2 -phase commit in between MQ and DB2, which looks for TCP channel opened. As ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 4 Delivered

Make logprimary and logfilsiz online configurable

If workload increases on system, it might be necessary to adjust (typically increase) the available active log space. System downtime is not acceptable in our days. It is sufficient if the log files get resized before re-use and the amount of log ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 2 Delivered
138 VOTE

Grant insert, select, update and delete on a schema

Ability to grant insert, select, update and delete on a schema
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

Cascading filters in Dashboard

In the Dashboard tool in Cognos Analytics when we use two different filters from the same package/table, filtering on one column does not filter the second column to narrow the values to a smaller subset.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered