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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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Member Caption in Context Filter is out of Sync

The captions of the dimension elements in the context filter do not update after a rebuild of the cube. The data source already contains the new caption, but the report still contains the old one. (See screenshot in appendix).The same, wrong behav...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to localize drilled through view

We crated a PAW book that can drill through to another view getting a records from ODBC DB using MDX like: "select aaa, bbb from table". On that view, we'd like to use localize caption so that caption can be changed depending on the language confi...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

XML input and output decommission

One challenge my client is facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my client has around one hundred thousand mappings, so their team has bee...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

High availability and disaster recovery capabilities for global search server

High availability and disaster recovery capabilities are important for the client. However, in the current version, it is not advisable to configure more than one global search server. Is it possible to configure search servers with high availabil...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate extra DSNX870I messages in the log when activating an IDAA after shutdown

When we deactivate an IDAA we see the DSN870I message (ACCELERATOR DT3GIDA1 IS NOT ONLINE) in the xxxxMSTR joblogs for each Db2 member the IDAA has been connected to. When we activate and IDAA we see the DSN870I message (ACCELERATOR DT3GIDA1 IS NO...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drag and drop set additions for reporting (like Analysis Studio did)

In Analysis Studio, you can drag additional items into a set, and it lets you and they stay as one set. This then allows calculations and summary data to be based on all the data in the set. In Reporting, you can't drop and drop additional items, ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back the Cube updated date into Reporting

In Analysis Studio, you can very easily see when Transformer cubes were built. This is extremely useful for our users, so that they know for sure they're using fresh data. This functionality appears missing in Reporting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration