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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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Auto populate tax and other statistical accounts calculation for Journals

For journal impacting PL, Tax lines are manually calculated and updated to journal including statistical accounts. System should auto add tax lines based on Tax rates per country by adding option in journal like "Calculate tax".
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Batch job to convert Dashboards to new Cognos Version

When IBM deploys a new series release (e.g. 11.0, 11.1, 11.2), users are prompted to resave the dashboard to 'convert' it to the new series and stop the convert/save message from reappearing on the screen. We are an OEM shop with many clients usin...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Enable Daily, weekly, Monthly schedule job option when uploading file in SFTP server for Cognos Controller on Cloud.

Kindly help us to recommend a best method to upload a file from third party to into the Cognos Controller. As requirement business wanted to know how we can upload a file from third party to Cognos Controller of ABI application. We want the proces...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Extend document removal API to work with removal queries

There have been several issues discovered when working with discovery and very dynamic date / agile prototyping. It is not possible (currently) to remove multiple documents, just 1 at a time. Often in the beginning of a project the data is ingeste...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IBM Datastage job migrated from V11.5 to V11.7 and use the Azure File System for storage account

We have migrated our jobs from V11.5 to V11.7 environment and uses soft link to Azure file system (storage account) for users input/output files. users are not allowed to drop files on server local system due to Azure server restriction on our env...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Is a defect

All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow connections to db2 luw databases to use SSL

Our company is in the middle of implementing an 'in-flight data encryption' for all database activity that requires SSL use. Other IBM products such as IBM Data Studio and Data Server Manager allow for connections to databases using SSL jdbc drive...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Folder usage within Data modules

I am trying to use folders within my data module so the users can distinctly see the dimensions and navigational paths
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Is a defect

}ROLLUP_ELEM functionality

Users have the ability in Perspectives to create adhoc }ROLLUP_ELEM_ consolidations to aggregate elements is private views. This functionality does not work in PAfE.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration