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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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Ability to control package based routing options in deployment process

Assuming package based routing is set in a production environment. The routing properties will be overwritten and are unset after importing a deployment file that was created in an environment without packaged based routing. The requested function...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM report studio: Running basic satatistics over a query result, without requerying the database

I need to be able to execute statistical calculations over a query result in Cognos and there are no functions currently. We need to be able to process statistical calcuations after parameterized queries execute and result sets are created. IBM SP...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

both “ACG Header” and “Group Specific access like Catalog, Hierarchy, Selection etc.” these two sections should be freezeed.

Is there any possibility that Horizontal Scrollbar can set it at end of Page by doing any configuration in Role?Because this will create difficulty in going to particular ACG out of 100's of ACGs. Request you to please check the same with the rele...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Default setting for Use Set Aggregate

By default when create Totals in the cross-tab, the value of the Use Set Aggregate property is set to true. Need to have an ability to set default value to false.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Definable and Reusable subsets (public + private) in BI Reports

Today there is the possibility to define public subsets in BI Reports (Shared sets in 10.2.1) but we would like a more flexible functionality: private as well as public subsets //// BI subsets as well as subsets based on package elements (dimensio...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Provide method to create Weighted Dimension in Dynamic Cube Designer

Client would like to have a means to create a Weighted Dimension in Dynamic Cubes. The requirement is such that whenever the specific members are added to a report the measure would be weighted. For example when Member ABC is added to the report a...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Transferring ownership of Annotation Sets

Problem When annotation sets are created by WKS and assigned to the selected (by the Project Manager) human annotators (HA), the ownership of the annotation sets cannot be changed. This means that if a HA is temporarily or permanently unavailable ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Credentials Management in Projects, Insert-to-Code, and Project-lib

The Watson Studio Notebook user interface allows you to insert code snippets and credentials for data connections and data assets into your notebook code. The problem is that it puts usernames and passwords in cleartext into the code even if you h...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration