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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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Ability to Render Text from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards

Ability to render free form (unstructured) text such as user comments from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards. Currently, text sourced from IBM Planning Analytics does not render in Cognos Analytics reports and dashboards. Ide...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX - Request for Commit API for Exploration Views

Currently, there is a Commit API available in PAX for Quick Reports. This allows the use of Excel VBA to commit data to TM1 via an Action Button calling the API. For an Exploration View, there is no Commit API that is available/documented that can...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Instrumentation to handle Native Strored Procedures created with the AUTONOMOUS keyword

Need assistance with how to handle native stored procedures created with the ‘AUTONOMOUS’ keyword. One of the benefits of using the Db2 instrumentation interface, is the ability to follow the flow of Stored Procedure SQL from the calling applicati...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Caching of large packages or modules for low bandwidth

Several users need to work in low bandwidth environments (5 or 2x2 Mbit), which currently may result in slow loading or in JS timeouts when large packages (35MB model.xml) are loaded in Authoring. With this idea, users in low bandwidth environment...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

There is no function to set a seed in the balance node.

We never get same records because there is no function to set a seed in the balance node. It is important to have fixed records while we attempt to build better model.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have more than 25 Advanced Settings

We now have more than 25 Advanced Settings, but there are only 25 lines that you can enter Advanced Settings and there is not a way to have more lines. Please create an enhancement that allows more then 25 Advanced Settings. Thanks
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration