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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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Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Monitor Capability to Scheduler

Currently there is no ability to automate the monitoring of scheduled jobs. Each morning one must open each job individually to see if the job execution was successful. Most job schedulers have an alert feature if the job failed, and in OpenPages ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration

Extend Sorting Capability on My Tasks Dashboard

When on the My Tasks Dashboard tab, the user is able to sort on Workflow Name, Stage (Status), and Stage Due Date, but unable to sort on Name, Type, nor Criticality. This request is to add sorting capability on those 3 columns.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Improve C11 URL performance

After C11 upgrade, we updated the C10 URL's embedded in some reports in order to use new URL syntax. The C11 URL's are slower.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Excel worksheets with password protection

My feedback concerns the TM1 Excel add-in (PAX) version 2.0.49.1 (64 bit) and its use with Excel Office 365. If you password protect a tab in Excel, whenever you click on that tab, I think the TM1 add-in runs a recalc resulting in a pop-up message...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Federation support for Transient Schema

Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parametarized URL, passing Datasource Signon

For some datasource we have several Signon used for different group of people. Some people have suffisant privilege to use more than one Signon, so when launching a report, they are prompted for the Signon to use. The reports are launched from int...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration