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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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Build Excel Export functionality in 8.0 UI

Users utilize the excel export functionality on a regular basis and will not switch to the new 8.0 UI without it. They export data from different modules and download it into excel and use excel to create custom views. This is a critical part of t...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

APIs for extracting some info from XMETA

We are currently using ETL jobs to read ETL execution logs(from DSODB) and ETL job modification details(from XMETA). This details are very important for auditing. In the CDP version, can you please include some APIs to get this information extracted.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Workbooks timing in PAW but corresponding request in the TM1 admin server do not get cancelled

Currently our PAW timeout setting are set to 180 seconds. We are seeing workbooks time out and throw various errors in PAW but when we look at the TM1Admin server activity via TM1Top. We are noticing the corresponding process ( for the timed out P...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend support of IBM i Datatypes

To extend the support for DB2 for IBM i data types, including BINARY (BINCHAR), VARBINARY, XML NCHAR, NVARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA.
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CREATE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE ITEMS

When selecting more than one Data Item, the options Explore -> 'Create' is not available. If only a single item is selected instead, the 'Create' option is available.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view. If we choose All Roots then we will be able to do the search for all members. Default view not pulling any results if we search for leaf attribute. SEV 1 IBM Case was opened for thi...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Passing Data item value on a line chart

When we have a line chart and have drill through. Cognos passes parameter or the data item which is a part of the graph. The requirement is to pass data item which is not part of the chart. In my requirement, I have a data item (hierarchy) of a di...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release