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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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Request For (Configurable) Tree Prompt Behavior

We would like a behavior change to tree prompts, possibly as a configuration option. When a tree prompt is in single-select mode, and when a node is selected, we would like the parent nodes to be permanently greyed out and disabled for selection.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Add a parameter to disable "unpopulated cells" spreads

The spread types "Repeat leaves" and "Equal leaves" have very dangerous options to spread to all leaf cells instead of populated ones. In a large cube with many dimensions containing many elements, the number of empty cells to write on jumps very ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Issue kerberos ticket renew from IDR

Customer replicates from IMS to Hadoop(HDFS), IDR abends on authentication failure(clock skew) due to Kerberos ticket expiry. This is manual intervention to renew the ticket, and recycle IDR subscriptions.
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

IIDRCDC PostgreSQL Target : Capability to Generate DDL for Target PostgreSQL Database

One of IIDRCDC supported target is PostgreSQL, which is relatively new target for IIDR. IIDRCDC currently doesn't support creating target tables for PostgreSQL, Target tables must exist before replicating data to PostgreSQL target. This would be u...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Openpages CJAP passing email to Cognos

OpenPages use the CJAP for login and it does not pass email address to Cognos. This is resulting User need to manually enter email address when scheduling Cognos report for email delivery.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration