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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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Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CUH monitor consolidation

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points Users know how many CUHs they are using from Watson Studio administration console. Users know how many CUHs they are using from IBM Cloud console. Users don't know the exact...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Links : Select more than one Applications Links.

In a Active Report given the opportunity to select more than one Applications Links.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Cognos for Microsoft Office interface for Microsoft Office 2013 SDI

With the change of Microsoft Office interface from MDI to SDI in Office 2013 the Cognos for Microsoft Office panel will automatically appear in a new instance of Office when an existing instance of Office is open with the panel already open.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompt user for Dynamic Report name rather than using a random number

When adding a dynamic report, what appears to be added as a reference is a random number. In a book with multiple reports and multiple reports on the same sheet, these numbers give no clue as to which report is being referenced. In Perspectives, i...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration