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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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Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PlanningAnalytics for Excel

Hello, we need the function ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PAfE. This function would be very good for controlling the formatting of each line element in an Active Form without complicated detours using an ELISANC check.It would also be desirable to ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support TimeSeries Data Type on Informix .NET Core

Microsoft .NET Core is the 5th Programming Language around the world. We have several projects where we gonna use Informix Time Series with C# language. Would be great if Informix .NET Core support timeseries data type.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Header of rows to appear in tables

It would be more than great to have name of header for the rows to be available in table view. Today it is possible for Attributes. We would like to have the same with Dimension name. Could have a good impact on user acceptance. See screen shot fo...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Assistant does not respect Regional Settings for Date Picker

WatsonX Assistant does not respect the regional settings when a Date response / Date picker is set for an Action step. It displays mm/dd/yyyy as the pattern despite Locale being set to 'en-NZ'. This should be fixed as it causes frustration / confu...
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Translate Cobol to Java on IBM i

Clients want to modernize their legacy and monolithic applications built years ago using db2 with Cobol on IBM i. They want to innovate, have a scalable solution, reduce operational risks and HR risks (not rely on deep expertise in cobol resources...