IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Writeback to object storage and databases through data virtualization layer

Real-Life Scenario In our Data Lake, we want to expose all of our data sources (structured and unstructured) to our customers in an unified data virtualization layer. In one use case, we want to train an AI algorithm on the data and flag those fil...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Checkboxes next to grid items should not appear if user does not have associate permission

In 8.2.0.0, when you have an association grid view on a task view (e.g. Associated Processes grid on an Entity Task view), users would need an Associate action button in order to associate or disassociate objects. In 8.2.0.3, rather than using the...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support of IBM DB2 Data Server Driver Package (instead of DB2 Data Server Client)

Support of the different DB2 Data Server Driver Packages instead/in addition to DB2 Data Server Client. The big advantage is, that the Driver Packages are much smaller and also easier to install. Also they don't need any additional DB2-User.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Use Cognos Data Module Editor for general use as query generation frontend in CP4D e.g. as a component in Data Management Console

Intro: HUK came up with a requirement to use Cognos (-Analytics) Frontend as a modeling tool do define complex queries. Their use case was mostly a data preparation / ELT which is not well suited for Cognos. But they have sound knowledge performin...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Support for Hypervisor Nutanix AHV

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) is quite widely used and some customers running DataStage on win would like to deploy it on AHV (currently 5.2.0). Other IBM products (eg. BAW are certified on Nutanix AHV) and it should be important to have it t...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Increase MAX_JOBID in PE environment - 4194303 too low

When using PE in LSF the maximum job ID is 4194303.We have already cycled through the range in 12 months and we'll likely do it twice this year.Having jobs with duplicate IDs causes a lot of problems with things like job accounting.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

List of data sources in Cognos Administration listed in a flat list. We should use folder structures.

There is no way to organize the data sources in Cognos Connection Administration.The current offering is a list. It would be more advantageous to allow folders so an administrator could group the data sources in a more logical manner. The problem ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Continue to support for websheets added by reference

Planning Analytics no longer supports Websheets that were added by reference. This feature has been supported in all past versions, and should continue to be supported
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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