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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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Ability to determine which boxes are checked by default when emailing a report

When our users use the "Run in Background" feature in Cognos Analytics to email a report that's in a public folder, they typically email the report as an attachment. Currently when the Delivery method of “Send report by email” is chosen, the "...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow selection of a Planning Analytics subset for a Tree prompt's default

Currently, when I try to set a Tree prompt's default selection property to a subset in a Planning Analytics data source's dimension, it is not allowed. This behavior is not preferred... selection of a subset should be available.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

8. Need ability to hide hierarchies PAX + PAW object trees.

Need the ability to hide hierarchies in both the PAW and PAX object trees.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Save As for a TI Processes in PAW?

Today there is the only a save button inside the TI Editing window in PAW. A "Save As" button would be useful.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

MFA Administration

We need the ability to manage and define MFA policies for cloud-based applications. MFA was recently enabled on all cloud-based applications. We have a need to require end users to be challenged via MFA on a regular basis (daily). Currently, an MF...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Connect to Azure DataBricks

Currently, Watson Knowledge Center does not support connection to Azure DataBricks. Please include that in further releases.
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Produce log during OPL Extract phase similar to Solve Engine Log

Many OPL real-world optimisations spend a large proportion of the overall solve time performing extraction/generation and there is no log of what is happening during this time. There should be a log produced during Extract similar to the Engine Lo...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration