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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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New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedSum

2 new consolidation functions ConsolidatedSum(flag-value, cube-name, element_1, element_2,… ); ConsolidatedSum calculates the sum value in a consolidation and returns a single value. I know that this is the same as not having a rule in place, bu...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add controls to interactive report running message

As a client, I would like the ability to control what appears when the user sees the pop-up when running a report interactively in the Report Authoring tool. As the report loads the prompt page, it says the report is running and gives the user an ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of REST-API by factor of 3x providing latest report version per default without intermediate steps

REST-API provides access to latest report version asking the API 3x:1.) Ask for report details2.) Ask for saved report output versions3.) Ask for lastest saved Output version.Each request connects, waits, queques, receives, reads results and execu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADM and Service User Account

IBM licensing regulation forces customers to purchase ADM licenses for any user accounts that are created without limitation. This includes service user accounts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Web Client and 'columns for journals'

The Controller Web Client is currently enabled for 'standard' journal treatment only, it is not currently compatible with 'journals as columns', as defined within submission set up.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Visual aids settings are not persistent

Within report the settings for visual aids are not persistent as it was in Cognos-10. Thus we appreciate saving the settings for visual aids.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP DATABASE VENDOR AZURE

Please extend BACKUP DATABASE to support cloud vendor type of AZURE. Presently, DB2 only supports S3 protocols.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

@sys-location entity not available in italian for Beta System Entities

I think it is quite useful an assistant able to understand the location of a user based in other languages. Specially if you want to complete user profile and play with geocoding data. There are other platforms who offer this service in italian ri...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Predefined Intents in Watson Assistant

"Greetings" and "Thank you" are one of the intent that is being created in every workspace in Watson Assistant. We do have predefined intents such as welcome,anything_else, true, false etc. Adding Greetings & Thank you to that list as predefin...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration