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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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Provision to allow the users to enter the partition and clustering keys for Partitioned tables in BQ and Apache Cassandra

Customer (and anyone using Google BigQuery) Google's BigQuery and Apache Cassandra support Partitioned tables . To retreive the data from these tables performantly , one needs to provide the Partition key and the Clustering Key. So, when the parti...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

TM1ELLISTS support AliasOverride in PAfE

On several of our customers we are switching from Perspectives to PAfE encountering the problem, that TM1ELLIST can't show the chosen Alias Name.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable connection to Active Directory Global Catalog

We need to be able to connect to Active Directory Global catalog via default port 3268 as preffered way to interract with our AD (instead of interacting with global domain root having several domains bellow like Europe/US/Asia/... ). Cognos Doc: "...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Dropdown in PaFe (Excel) when cell lock is applied

Users like PaFe addin and comfortable working in excel. So the template developed in excel they want to protect using cell security provided by excel. This Pafe template will be used both online and offline commit purpose. It is observed that when...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to select 1 to many elements on a selector widget and have visualisations re-calculate

Cognos Analytics allows users to select multiple elements from a selection widget, upon selecting those items all visualisations that are synchronised to that dimension would recalculate the totals by summing the elements together from the datasou...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Implement Support for iterator().forEachRemaining() or forEach() on JSONArrays

Loops are always good, to allow the use of arrays with dynamic length. Currently it is only possible to interact with elements in an array, that has a predefined length. Just imagine you ask your customer for multiple appointments in a slot. ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoiding 0C7 on UNLOAD from FIC when structure has changed

Hi all, To explain what the idea I'm going to explain the "issue" In a project, we add to drop a column from a table. To do that on multiple environment we use automation tool. The tool drop/create the object without unloading data. So to correct ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration