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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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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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Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Enable queryValue() and queryValues() for Report Queries and Data Items

As of today, both macro functions queryValue() and queryValues() can only be used with direct source paths (e.g., package or data module). It would be extremely beneficial for report authors if these functions could also reference report queries a...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Select a delivery method while running a report with full interactivity

When running an ad hoc report from the Cognos portal, there is a noticeable difference between full interactivity mode and classic mode. The option to select a delivery method is only available in classic mode, meaning users cannot send the report...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Mobile App - View Most Recent

Currently in the web version of cognos, you can set the properties of a report to view the most recent version, instead of running it fresh. In the new cognos mobile app, this option does not work, which is a problem (especially for long running a...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted