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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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Properties tab should not reset to the first tab when changing selection of an object.

When creating or modifying a workbook you often make changes to the same settings from the properties window. Every time you select an object to modify it refreshes as you expect with the new properties but changes the focus to the first tab. This...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Reference output for CSV and Excel Data

In addition to booklets, utilizing Report References is a great way of abstracting source reports from consumers. Different from Report Views, because you can't create a report view of a report view. But, you can create a report view from a report...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Display data imported from connection on analytics dashboard

This is the case number TS004291198 we had opened. Although there is other way to solve it, but it is not user-friendly to do it. We would need this function to use the dashboard like what other dashboard softwares can do. We will need MySQL as th...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Planned for future release

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][CS] - PMC becomes very slow during heavy workload

PMC becomes very slow when there is heavy workload running on a large Grid. Issue is seen on Resource Group, Resource plan, Consumer and Consumer Properties pages, however performance of Consumer Properties page is particularly bad. It takes more ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 2 Planned for future release

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release

System Administrator should have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrators current have no ability to renew other users credentials on their behalf. This is very inconvenient as it would otherwise be necessary to always know users' credentials prior to renewing them.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Term history

The client required to have the capability the allows to have Term history shows the changes made to a glossary term over time. This section displays if term history is enabled by the Glossary Administrator and changes have been made to the term a...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Business Glossary Anywere

the following complementary functionalities are included and are required by the customer: Business Glossary for Eclipse – Cognos Framework Manager/Report – Designer integration – Governance Dashboard/SQL Views – Stewardship Center/Subscription Ma...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration