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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Under review

Enable TAC oracle funtion on Stored Procedure stage

Currently, DataStage cannot support TAC Function on STP Stage version 11.7.1.x because the customer is using Oracle resource and has enabled TAC function. After testing and running, it was found that the problem occurred at Stored Procedure stage....
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Convert LRSN to TIMESTAMP

We use CDC replication. When the replication stops for any reason there is a bookmark in the form of an LRSN. We need a way to convert that LRSN to a TIMESTAMP. We need this conversion to see if the LRSN is too old, so we do not have Arhive Logs t...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Support to use User Session and LDAP Fields as parameter in the Where field of Data Protection Rule Filter Rows option.

We have a big client testing Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, Watson Query to be their data platform. One important use case is use the protection rule feature > filter rows option in a Where Condition field allows to pass user session or LDAP fields a...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improve exports to Powerpoint on PA-Workspace

Export vers Powerpoint improved with 16:9 parameters and with custom mask (logo, image, police)
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
10 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration