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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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Date picker in Contributor window to show current date instead of 01/01/1899

Users will not have to click 100+ time to arrive to current 2023 year in date picker for every new entry they have to input.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Trouble with setting date format in the Date Prompt (Date Prompt does not have Data Format property) when the Content Language is set to Ukrainian or Ukrainian(Ukraine).

Hello. This is a burning need: we need full support for the Ukrainian language in the IBM Cognos Analytics product. This revision will affect a large number of product users who use the product constantly. We're having trouble with setting dat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Relative Proportional Spreads for multiple quarters and years

Allow relative proportional spread to multiple quarters at once. For example, take Q3 2022 Actuals and spread this to Q1 to Q4 2023 Forecast data.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

TM1Server Support SSL protocol for TLS 1.3

Support for TLS 1.3 is a need in 2023. It's something like the Windows server 2019 support for PAW arrived in 2022. Because the security vulnerabilities like log4j and other big media fuss the companies started to search for any hardening option. ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add Support for newer Ubuntu Releases

Only Ubuntu 18.04 is a supported Operating System for SPSS Modeler Server 18.4.But Ubuntu 18.04 is End Of Life since 31 May 2023. (https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-end-of-standard-support)Please add support for newer Ubuntu releases (20.04, 22.04, 24...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Planned for future release

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration