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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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Mark an element in PAW to be mandatory for data input and warn when not filled in

We would like to have the ability to register certain elements in PAW to be mandatory for data input and warn enduser when not filled in. This functionality is especial important when using pick-lists and virutal dimensions.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unencrypted password in udl file

We have discovered that in udl files the password is unencrypted. When discovered during a penetration test this is considered a high risk.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Drill through to Workspace Advanced Including Filters

As in request ID 70197, 70261 and 70004 I would like to see filters passed on drill through. I would also like the drill through to have the option of opening in a relational model in Workspace Advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show Business Terms, Quality Scores, Data Rules, Stewards, etc...from a lineage graph

In IGC this was accomplished by creating a Template and applying that template to a lineage graph - when you downloaded the lineage to a pdf, the template was applied. Please see a sample of the pdf attached to this idea.
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Have out of the box relationships (and their inverse from Data Asset to Governace Rule to Quality Rule

These out of the box relationships are used in regulatory compliance use cases for the Catalog - this is also a parity issue with existing IGC Users who utilize these relationships today. We need to have a relationships as below: Data Asset-->G...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

LOAD utility by pass checking pending status for empty tables

When LOAD utility is run on a referentially integrated table (child table) while both parent and child tables are empty (no rows) let DB2 refer to RTS data and decide NOT to put the table in CHECK PENDING status.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Performance of complex reports against TM1 with MTQ>1

Having complex reports (ie. burst or complex reports with multiple pages and master details) against a TM1 datasource, can have major performance impact on the TM1 server, depending on the settings.Behaviors that are experienced:- each burst key e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration