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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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I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Enable Instana monitoring for Watson Assistant

Instana not possible to use for Watson Assistant. WA pods are evicted. The root cause of the issues was that the Instana product injects a jar file into a temporary directory, called EmptyDir, which has a preset limit of 1Mi. The Instana jar is ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Views in the TFUI to have Rules that include Groups not just Profiles

The rules on Views like Gridviews are very simplistic, by allowing admins to give subsections of a profile different views by using GROUPS, it significantly improves the usability of the GridView. -OR- Allow for a drop-down selection for a user to...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Personnalized Session Parameter

We need to add a Session Parameter available in Frame Work Manager or Report. The purpose is to personnalize a parameter by environnment production, validation, etc in the Cognos configuration context and use it in FM or Report.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill down with navigation path

Navigations Paths cannot be used like real "drill down" in report studio
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchies created from attributes by PAW

Hello, Planning Analytics Workspace gives opportunity to create hierarchy using element attributes. Unfortunately this features can be used only for creation two-levels hierarchy. Our customers wants to create multiple level hierarchies using PAW.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

IFCID amendment to include SQL Text

Currently the ifcid 366 and 376 do not always supply the SQL text, but rely on the explain statement cache to supply it. This means SMF extracts rarely supply the SQL text required for these records.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration