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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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Display loading bar instead of grid lines while opening reports in PAW

Our Team uses Cognos TM1 for Planning and Reporting purpose. we have lot of reports which we access via TM1 Web. Recently we have migrated to Planning Analytics but in PAW we get grid lines before loading the report. There is delay of around 10 to...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBMID for Cognos Analytics

Would like the ability to log into Cognos Analytics on Cloud directly using the IBM ID. Currently the integration with Planning Analytics (which uses the IBM ID) is only possible by clicking the "Report" button in the PA portal. Cannot currently l...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performant SQL Windowing functionality

We tried to use the syntax for windowing in SQL as an alternative to using subselects. Most other DBMSs perform a lot better with the windowing syntax, but we can only see less performance using it. The reason we want to use it is basically to get...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add a value to TYPE column of SYSPACKAGE to indicate that Package is IDAA Enabled

I’m surprised that there is no reference in SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, I’m sure there is a lot of customer code out there that generates BIND Cards and would not think to look in SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDPACKAGES, to determine BIND options. Separating th...
over 4 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IDAA should identify and format the rest of a volume after using TDMF to migrate from a smaller capacity dasd device to a larger capacity device

We recently migrated via TDMF from mod 54 to EAV devices (4 times larger) TDMF will copy the data to a space the size of the mod 54 (1/4 of the EAV). IDAA will only recognize and use the that space wasting 3/4 of the device. We would like IDAA to ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes. As an example: we migrated our dasd from Mod 54’s to EAVs. The mod 54’s were being removed from the data center. In order to do this we had IBM remove the appliance data pools, upload a new JSON file...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Classification Labelling

Our company has an IT security requirement that all data has a classification whether it is electronic or printed on paper. There are four different classifications of data and the user should be allowed to choose one. The label would need to be i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration