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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.

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


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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

Cascading prompts that contain only a singluar element should also receive a box frame like the ones with mutliple elements

Currently Cascading Prompts that contain only one selectable Value will not show a Box Frame similar in Outline to those that have multiple Elements for selection.
over 6 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

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

Enhanced error information for data modules

Data modules are created and used for extended periods of time without changing and multiple reports are built off them. If a data source is renamed or moved multiple reports fail, however the error message they generate don't point the data modul...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Enhance Optimization Hints for Dynamic SQL

The current infrastructure for access path stability for dynamic SQLs does not have a mechanism to do patter matching on SQL statement. If access path stability is needed on a SQL where the predicates have actual literal values and the values chan...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration