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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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More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Monitor DB2 Client

Setup: Currently we have a db2 client installed on the NFS and mounted on all of our app servers. A soft link created from app server home path to the db2profile NFA to access the client from app servers. Pain point: More than 800+ Nodes and 2000+...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Use Both Workstation Name and APPLNAME (or any other control combination) to Create a Granular Profile

Create more granular DB2 profiles by specifying 2 different control points in the DSN_PROFILE_TABLE.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Retention of Formatting in Planning Analytics for Excel Viewer

When using Planning Analytics our Developers create standard views for users so that they can easily see important information in the system. In the RDP Perspectives Cube Viewer you can add formatting to these views e.g #,###;(#,###) which when th...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

PAW: Stacked bar chart with lines

Stacked bar chart with lines is an important visualization for plan, target, actual during the year.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export as Text - View Definition Window

Currently we have a client that is doing ABC/Profitability where different stages of allocations occur. There are a number of different sub-processes that utilises customised views to enable the processing of each row in the caller process. For de...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration