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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Detailed Error Capability should be at least part of the Analytics User License

The capability detailed error, is only part of the Administrator Licence und should be available for all Licences. It is technically possible to assign the capability to regular users, but not allowed due to licence restictions.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

re-aasign new package to report from properties

Re-point a report to an alternative package from the properties dialogue
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Filter List of Report Names in Folder

In addition to the "Filter By type" and Sort By options at the top of a list of Report Names in a folder, provide a text box to Filter the list. For Folders with many reports it takes a long time to scroll down in segments and a long time for the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add capabilities for bulk enrichment of assets

Currently, users have to manually edit enrichment (if for example the worng business term or data class is assigned). It would be a time saver to allow the export of enrichments and then make the changes on an exported csv file and then re-import....
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Expose APIs and/or ability to create rules populate custom properties at the asset level

The feature is to allow implementaors to automate the population of custom properties at the asset level using APIs and/or custome rules. For example,let us say custom properties were created for asset type, such as origin or security-level, then ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's very...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Add full interactivity to reports as it is in dashboards

Better, more user friendly and consistent user experience across both dashboards and reports.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to modify/remove 'Quick reference' from 11.0.8 home screen

With the the 11.0.8 interface, need to capability to modify (preferred) or to remove the 'quick reference' menu. As delivered it has links to external sites.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

db2expln stopped working from db2v11.5.7.0 onward on HADR STANDBY

db2expln, doesn't write / update and tables on the database and it was working till db2 v11.5.5 on STANDBY RO enabled, from v11.5.7.0 it stopped working, many time there is a need to check explain out on STANDBY RO enabled
over 2 years ago in Db2 6 Functionality already exists