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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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All TM1 cube based reports are throwing "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics error" post upgraded to 11.2.4 FP3

We have upgraded cognos from 11.1.7 FP5 to 11.2.4 FP3. Post upgrade we are getting "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics" error while running the report which is created based on TM1 Cube. Datasource Connection Type : IBM Plannin...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Suppression of validation check messages

Need the ability to suppress validation checks and only display custom validation messages in production environments. Currently when a validation fails all validation check messages are displayed on the screen as well as the custom validation mes...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Toggle to set Username login as non-case sensitive

We notice that the OpenPages login is case sensitive. e.g. (iwong10). If we were to enter say "IWong10" the username fails as on the user management console, we place the username of my account is "iwong10". Is there are way to update configuratio...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
8 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted
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Support of RUNSTATS of range-partitioned tables on single partition

RUNSTATS on range-partitioned tables always runs on allpartitions. If all indexes are partitioned, a RUNSTATS of a singlePartition would be helpful.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Automatic backup for PAW assets/ Manage PAW snapshots programatically

Currently, the data tier can be backed up by launching .bat scripts. (to create a zip) PAW reports are totally managed in the docker content store and we have no programmatic access to the creation of Snapshots. Snapshots can only be managed throu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration