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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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Migration Capability in Lifecycle Manager across different PAW environment

Currently in PAW Version 30; there is no way to setup mapping between across instances hosted on two different PAW environments (Say DEV and QA) in Lifecycle manager. The only way to migrate objects is to export from the source and import it in ta...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Backup Size Info In History FIle

Db2 LUW Doesn't provide Backup Image Size that was taken . Please add this info to history file along with location of backup image
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1

Cognos Analytics OpenID Pass-through authentication to HANA

Cognos Analytics using OpenID with OKTA for two factor authentication and pass-through authentication to HANA
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Jobs: add load dataset step

Ability to add a load dataset step to a job
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make name of object the default when exporting

Currently when exporting a DataStage object from Designer (with rightclick->Export), the tool will suggest the last used filename as "Export to file:" filename. In most cases (when exporting a single object) I want to name the DSX like the obje...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to control Size & Overflow of Chart Objects on DASHBOARD via enhanced controls

Need ability to actual set Size and Overflow properties of Dashboard objects, such as Width and Height of a Bar Graph or a Heat Map through property similar to what we have in REPORTS or in Report Studio. Currently the Size can be changed only via...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support creation of Navigation paths with Framework Manager and Transfomer

Both Framework manager and Transfomer should be able to support creation Navigation paths like available within Data modules
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration