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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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Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Full interactivity should be set to 'No' for reports copied from older versions

The property ‘Run with full interactivity’ should be set to 'No', by default, for reports which are copied (using copy-to-clipboard), from reports originally built in older versions of Cognos. Currently in C11, reports 'migrated' (export/import) f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Config setting to disable auto-completion

Create a config setting that will allow users to disable the auto-completion functionality in PAW rules and TI.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Have pipeline retry interval to be configurable with no exponential backoff

StreamSets is currently implementing exponential backoff in pipeline retry logic. The wait time between retries starts at 15 seconds and doubles until reaching 5 minutes. Please add a function for pipeline retry interval to be configurable with no...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Bulk actions

I am having to action 50 tasks individually. Considerable time taken. Please consider the following: to manually reset all submissions without save as workaround to manually activate/disable all tasks in a plan
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics For MS Office

We downloaded the latest version of Cognos Analytics for MS office and connected it to Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 environment. We tried to import the report to PowerPoint. We found we couldn't import 11.1 style visualization to PowerPoint. It shows b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration