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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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Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

fGetTransVal to be used also for IC Margin accounts

To be able to make reports on Intercompany Profit Calculations, it would be very helpful to be able to retrieve the Margins entered in Cognos Controller. The accounts are defined as IC accounts with M-code and the Margin is entered as Transaction ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support GCP's Cloud Spanner as the available data sources in CP4D's DataStage

My Clients can transfer and analyze data on only CP4D without buying and develop new software and tool.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Display row stats ( rows_read, rows_written, tq_rows_sent, tq_rows_recv) for each sub-section in MON_GET_AGENT

Currently, there is no equivalent of getting row level information ( TQ_ROWS_SENT/RECV, Rows Read, Rows written ) for each agent running within a sub-section which was readily available in snap_get_subsection or db2 get snapshot for application ag...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NEVER fall back to IMS DBCTL when SQL is not eligible for IMS Direct

We have a requirement to restrict access to IMS Direct only. Users should not have access to IMS Online. In DVM when an SQL is not eligible for IMS Direct DVM directs the SQL to IMS Online despite IMS Online not being enabled in DVM. There is no o...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Concat in Websheets

Excel 2016 is not issuing a warning that concatenate is being replaced by concat. Please enable concat to work in TM1Web on websheets. As far as I can tell it has the same functionality. This is from the help on concatenate in Excel 2016:Important...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Reports

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, we used to be able to do comparisons and create reports that we could print for our customers to show them the differences and what failed, etc. There is no reporting or exporting of results as previousl...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Model Evaluation for Numeric and Categorical Dependent Variables

SPSS Modeler has ability to show analysis model evaluation metrics such as RMSE, MAPE, MAE for numeric dependent variables and Balanced Accuracy, F-Measure for categorical dependent variables in Analysis Node.
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration