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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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Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
29 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
29 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Projects - Storage volume connections - enable Data Quality features

Hi, my customer is using intensively Storage volumes (type SMB) as connections in CP4D. But when they create data quality rules, it doesn't works because it's not supported. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=catalogs-stora...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Alerts for DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError at the object level

We would like to see if it would be possible to get alerts at the object level for the event types DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError. Right now, this is possible to do for getpage activity which is very helpful. A workaround we wou...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record. sometime Bulk calculation fail or it fail for some particular record, Need option to OPA user to run such calculation on specific record. Currently option is too flip value and set it back.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Difficult reading of stage transformer in CP4D

Stage Variables: It is challenging to view all stage variables simultaneously and discern their interrelationships. Additionally, it is not possible to identify the types of fields in use. Output Derivation: The box for adding field derivations is...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration