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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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Creating Custom Consolidation in Set Editor for PAW/PAX

There is no option to create custom consolidation ( Equivalent to create rollup button in Subset Editor). Some of the rollups for reporting purposes are getting created by end users on the fly for analysis purposes which are not available in the d...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

gnerate alert when report output is not created on file system

When a scheduled job or interactive report is ran and the output is set to file system if the output is not generated or written to the file system there is no notification or alert of an issue.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include process ID in past activities information in Cognos Administration

The Current Activities view in Cognos Administration includes a bunch of helpful information for troubleshooting including the process ID (PID). With the PID we are able to trace that process to the Cognos server and if we cancel the process in Co...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Consideration of Statistical Views for INSERT with Sub-SELECT

We try to improve the performance on an INSERT with an underlying complex subselect eg. "INSERT INTO table "Therefore we created a statistical view through which the optimizer should be able to get more distribution statistics and build a better a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

No way to delete all saved reports at once

There is no way to remove report versions other than deleting them on every report.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bar Vizualization with data table (like in Excel)

If you insert a chart in Microsoft Excel you have the option to generate a crosstab below the chart with all the data used.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a visual indicator to the interface to show which objects have a schedule

Please add a visual indicator to show users which objects in a list have a schedule. This is something that has always been difficult for our users in previous versions and remains difficult in Cognos Analytics. The only way to see if an object ha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to return Normalized entity values from WKS custom model

Applying annotation to documents ingested into WDS using a custom WKS model allows the client to tag content based on their own vocabulary/domain. Currently WKS model can't be configured with the normalizeEntities flag (like Alchemy used to be) an...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to audit all customizations made for Cognos Analytics roles

We have taken advantage of the customization options provided in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, but we are finding it is difficult to see what customizations are applied in our environment at a high level. We are keeping a spreadsheet of the customizati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration