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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make IDAA SQL Extensions available to the Db2 SQL API

By attaching an IDAA to our Db2 for z/OS we are adding analytics capability to the mainframe. Our data scientists are starting to exploit the capability, but need more SQL functionality (scalar functions) to be able to do analytics on all types of...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Additional TM1 Server logger "TM1.Mdx.Interface" in the tm1s-log.properties

PAW is generating MDX.interface errors such as the below in the tm1server.log : 19520 [1b25] INFO 2022-04-01 11:59:28.245 TM1.Mdx.Interface SELECT: Could not construct view array (rte 390) 53904 [1b25] INFO 2022-04-01 11:59:28.371 TM1.Mdx.Interfac...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module: Combine fact tables (like a presentation layer)

I want to have the capabilities to regroup measures(columns) from different tables into one folder. In other words, having the possibility of using a presentation layer which reference the measures. At the moment, I have to make my user navigate t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

Issue with Kafka connector within DataStage.

Current State: When a DataStage job fails while reading from a Kafka connector, the records read from the queue before the runtime failure are marked as "read" and removed from the queue, despite the record not being passed out of the connector an...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Variable Text on Visualization Titles When Filtered

When two or more widgets are linked in a dashboard, it would be great if the titles on the widgets/visualizations changed with whatever is being filtered. We've found that the only way to achieve anything like this currently is to use something li...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Being able to collect attached file in chat conversation

Hi, It would be great if we could collect a file during a conversation (even small file like word document) Example 1: - A user connect to the chat and want to apply for a job offer after vewing all the current opportunities, he entrer his n...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Stemming instead of lemmatization for exact match search in Spanish

Customer needs exact match search, same as WeX Content Analytics. R&D teams has given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. It solved some issues such as Spanish accents and missing characters, but there are still ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration