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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize template properties and display on list of template

Have the possibility to add new properties of a template, in our case it could be version of the template but also some business metadata.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

"No Data" option on Dashboard visualisations

We need the ability to display something more intuitive to users if filtering a dashboard makes a visualisation return "No Data".
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bar / line graphs behavior for stacked rows / columns

Currently when 2 dimensions are stacked in rows or columns (eventually with asymmetric selection), we can not use bar / column / line charts to compare the columns. In some occasion we need to be able to stack dimensions and display this kind of c...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enable authentication on non-root instances of Optim Connect Server

IBM Software RFE Community: View request Description: Enable authentication on non-root instances of Optim Connect Server service Use case: Optim Connect Server is started with a non-root account. Optim Connect Server authentication is enabled. Us...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Ability to filter a view based on text values

Currently, an option exists to filter a view based on top/ bottom numeric values ​​in rows / columns. No options are available if we need to filter the data in a view based on a string value (the only option is to write a specific mdx statemen...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos....
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Couchbase Data Source

Customer is now leveraging Couchbase for data that needs to be reported on.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Search Box to Expression Builder in Order to Search Functions

When looking for or trying to find specific functions that might meet the need of a user. You must find your way through the menu list of functions. However, you may not KNOW the name of the function or therefore WHAT area the function might resid...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration