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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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Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need TI functions to determine the number of hierarchies in a dimension and hierarchy name by index.

Currently, there are not TI functions to determine the number of hierarchies in a dimension and/or given an index the name of the hierarchy.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Secure Gateway Special Character

Support ticket: TS000934521 The Secure Gateway Portal built into PAA does not support special characters ("\" or ",") when specifying server name. Can this be updated to accept the characters?
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DOEADMIN members should have the ability to review all Pull requests

The members mapped to DOEADMIN (Super User) group should be able to view and manage the pull requests raised by any team. The reason being 1. In general they are DBAs/ Sys progs. They should have a view on the pull requests irrespective of the te...
about 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Refresh view for Subscription

Add a "Refresh View" button to the GUI also for Subscriptions as it exists for Table Mapping View.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Holds for Spreading in PAx Dynamic Reports

The Hold function does work in PAx for Quick views and Exploration views. For Dynamic views there is: 1. No ability to set Holds in PAx Dynamic Report (right click a cell > IBM Planning Analytics > no Hold function available) 2. Holds are no...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration