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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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Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Adding of Existing Element to New Hiearchy

When creating a new hierarchy, or editing an existing hierarchy, you can't add an existing element (one that you created previously and exists in the Leaves hierarchy, or another hierarchy). It complains that it 'already exists' even though it DOE...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

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 ...
about 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

db2caem should support 'SET CURRENT QUERY OPTIMIZATION = N'

For diagnostic of Db2 performance problems the tool db2caem can be very helpful. Especially if a particular query plan should be compared using different optimization levels. Using db2caem the optimization level must be specified by embedded opti...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

WKC search engine enhacements (including API) for it to be more Google-like

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort of Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the sear...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Management Server Mappings for Local Install

Provide the capability to map different environments (like Dev and Prod) in the Source and Target mappings of Lifecycle management so objects can be migrated between different PAW environments within a Planning Analytics Local install.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Avoid WKC quality project blank due to some certificate expiry

Asset list in WKC quality project gone/blank suddenly someday. Feel like whole system done. Customer been told the reason is : some certificate will be expired unpredicted someday between 10-13 months, not sure which day. Could we give enough time...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration