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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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When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
9 months ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Log viewer role also in Classic Experience

Would be very useful if the Log Viewer role become valid also in classic experience like in new experience. Or as alternative.. let reader/writer to see activity logs and analytics in classic experience: peoples creating the assistant contents nee...
9 months ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Dialog nodes drag & drop like "new experience"

instead of clicking on the node, move on the node tree, then choose where to drop the new node and then choose if above or below the target node.. drag and drop could be more user friendly
9 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Exploration Features colour and icon in PAW

Following the update to the new experience view in PAW, the default exploration feature icon has changed from a white +/- in a black circle to a black >. Depending upon the fill colour used for the Row and Column Headers, the black > icon is...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages. Currently the max it can go is 500 and if there are more models to be downloaded, it cannot be done with single export. We request you to please ...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to change the maxURL lenght parameter in IIS config script

The default setting of the Maximum URL length (bytes) is 8192. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=services-configuring-iis-in-cognos-analytics For some dashboards we need to increase this value to at least 16000 https://www....
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to word wrap long text values in Dashboard visualizations

On Dashboard visualizations, when the data items, containing long strings of text, are added to visualizations, the text values are cut off. Customers need to ability to enable word wrap.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration