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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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Enable nesting items bellow and next to each other in visualization like it used to work in old cognos charts

We need to be able to drag elements next to each other and bellow each other in the same visualization to be able to combine elements and show what is requested in dsahboards. Especially important for OALP sources. Typically you want to have two l...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use geospatial functions on geodata type without making a SQL Table in Data module

We want to use spatial functions with spatial data type in informix in a datamodule. We have a lot of tables containing a spatial data type. We want it to have it like in framework manager. DEV TS005539448: I got a response from dev team and there...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Check Grammer in WKC Descriptions

Submitted on behalf of Michelle Leslie, Standard Bank Group, Africa. (michelle@titude.co.za) When a user enters a description to describe an artefact (e.g. business term, reference data set..), the description should be checked for spelling and...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Caption function updates dimension name in task pane but not in the PAX exploration overview

If we use the Caption option to show a different dimension name then it shows in the task pane of PAX but not in the Overview section. Both need the alias to improve useability.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

blocknonlogged should prevent nonrecoverable loads

The blocknonlogged config should block all nonlogged activity including loads. Or, an additional cfg should be added.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Mark an element in PAW to be mandatory for data input and warn when not filled in

We would like to have the ability to register certain elements in PAW to be mandatory for data input and warn enduser when not filled in. This functionality is especial important when using pick-lists and virutal dimensions.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

A widgets in dashboarding, in which data item should always be returned in complete

I want to make a diagram. On the X-as I want ALL the months of a year. As a measure I want the number of Invoices (as an example). Nowadays a month doesn't appear when there are no Invoices in that month. Still, I want to keep seeing the month on ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unencrypted password in udl file

We have discovered that in udl files the password is unencrypted. When discovered during a penetration test this is considered a high risk.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration