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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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MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Sensitive Access Report showing users with Write access rights with privilege to enter Journals

We need to validate what are the users that have sensitive access (i.e. Write access rights, with privilege to enter Journals) and to what entities/companies, so we can manage them appropriately and avoid business risks to our Financial statements...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW - SQL replication should optionally use TRUNCATE when performing a Full Refresh of large tables

Db2 LUW SQL Replication (10.2.1) When you run a Full Refresh of a subscription set, the asnapply utility issues a DELETE FROM <target table> prior to the refresh of the data. For large tables this has a significant and unnecessary overhead -...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for users to bulk create records in the UI

Users should be able to bulk create records in the UI without using the FastMap utility. Users currently need to manually create records one by one. Perhaps, we can implement a datas This is very tedious for those who need to record multiple...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

PRS-NOP-1056 error using tree prompt with multiple datasource connections

Client has datasource with multiple connections. When report is run user must choose one. When there is a tree prompt the datasource prompt is bypassed and the tree is displayed. Expanding the tree causes a PRS-NOP-1056 error. Bug is same as COGCQ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'.

Client Esri: Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'. When running a report Cognos forces the browser to use 'IE 5 Quirks mode' (called 'Quirks mode' in IE 8 and 9 and 'IE 5 Quirks mode' in IE 10 and 11). This c...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENABLE ONCHECK DATA CROSS-CHECKING FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX

oncheck -cI on a functional index still says:"Non vanilla index. data crosschecking not enabled" After so many years supporting functional indices we should consider enabling this. I had a customer with a corruption in a functional index on a huge...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Mark Intents with a warning if they are not referenced at the Dialog tab

As the number of Intents grow in a project, it becomes hard to track which of them doesn't have an answer at the dialog tab, it would be nice to have a warning. Annexed is how I imagined the feature.
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration