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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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Index query definition does not check if the index attribute has storage enabled leading to query which will never return results

If an index attribute is not stored the index query will never return any data. This can be cause confusion to the user as to why it is not returning data because it is not stored it will never return any result. If a check can be done to exclude ...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

add lineage feature to find dependent reports for a data module

my business team stakeholders asked to provide an audit of dependent reports on data modules within the production portal the audit was asked for to understand if the reports which are running on schedule can be assigned to a different user or sim...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

For sysprocplan add reason for last change/recompile.

For sysprocplan add reason for last change/recompile. E.g. nidexname dropped, tablename changed version. Indexname changed version. This would help when sysprocplan changes keep being logged.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Ability to restrict usage of an attribute defined at upper level mandator in lower level mandators in the mandator hierarchy

Currently client users can use all the attributes defined on the root mandator on rules and investigation queries . Certain attributes are defined at the root level are purely internal and we want to restrict the visibility and usage of this attri...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Ability to call REST APIs as a data source in Watson Query

We are currently probing the capabilities of Watson Query to support a data mesh architecture by acting as virtual layer over our heterogenous IT landscape, providing uniformly structured data services to the consumers. A large number of our data ...
7 months ago in Watson Query 0 Submitted