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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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CP4D Catalog Search Capability to be improved.

When searching the catalog for a catalog asset, the search functionality does not provide a “narrowed-down” view of the search results. The user has to scroll through pages and pages of results to find exactly what they are looking for. The lower ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to use square bracket and CellValueN shorthand for rules which use cross-hierarchy lookups

Currently the "shorthand lookup" functions [ ] and CellValueN() cannot be used on the right hand side of a TM1 rules expression in cases where the hierarchy in the lookup is modified to a different hierarchy from the cell where the rule is evaluat...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

FAP Client notifications when Data mart goes down due to an error.

Real life example, date mart stops working at 18:00. The next day you check the data and notice that they don't match. The cause turns out to be that Fap Cline has stopped working. It would be very helpful to add notifications when Data Mart goes ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Formats should be Saved with Views

Currently when a user saves an MDX View from the cube viewer in Pafe the format state is not saved with the view. Formats should be saved with the view, they represent a fundamental part of the viewing experience. All users would benefit from this...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager to Update the Metadata Information from Database

Framework Manager does not update the Description of the Database object, when we update the object. If the database did not have the Description at the time of import, even when we manually key in the Description / Screen Tip to the Database Laye...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Output should allow for alternate XML formats

XML output format does not provide for the tag names and cannot be used for import to other applications. Currently, the only option is to export to cvs and then create a program to parse the data. This defeats the purpose of providing XML as a re...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Copy and use full distributed stats available for federation from DB2 LUW to DB2 LUW

We use federation to check audit records on db2 blu and match then to financial record on Peoplesoft. All treatments are executed from financial DB (row organized), and pb is that nicknames do not take into account distributed stats nor colum grou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Future consideration

COMMIT NOWAIT

COMMIT NOWAIT could be used to accelerate commit processing (releasing locks while log data not yet written to disk nor transferred to HADR standby) . There are applications that know how to restart their database transaction in case the transacti...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration