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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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Pipeline Run Metrics in the Ops console DB

To collect the run time metrics of pipeline is currently missing on CP4D environment. In On-Prem routines are helping to capture this metrics for all jobs and sequence. but on CP4D is limited to only DataStage flows. Looking for pipeline metrics t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Allow inclusion of sub-mandator model(s) in upper-mandator simulations.

For those using a multi-mandator structure, it is currently possible to include model components from an upper-mandator when running a simulation on the sub-mandator due to the inheritance feature. However, it is not possible to do the opposite: i...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add Group By query type to Simulation queries.

Ad hoc and other similar queries available for Simulation data are limited to a configurable number of records allowed. As a result, it is not always possible to get back all of the data of interest in a single Simulation query while also maintain...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted