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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Continue to support for websheets added by reference

Planning Analytics no longer supports Websheets that were added by reference. This feature has been supported in all past versions, and should continue to be supported
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Wrap text feature for row/column/title labels in PAW book.

On PA Workspace local release 27, there is no settings to wrap text/word for row/column/title labels in PAW. As a consequence, row/column/title labels has been truncated not fitting in the width.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Design Extensions and Image Libraries for individual tenants

Design Extensions and Image Libraries for individual tenants
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Change the PAW waiting icon

We want to heavily use PAW to present reports. However, as PAW syncs across books, users MUST know to give PAW a second to sync. The WAIT icon is far too transparent/translucent in PAW. Make it obvious that the user needs to wait. Here's a use...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Can we have option where we can overwrite numbers for all accounts?

When we try to do over write numbers, we can do only for accounts what we are loading numbers. Can we have option where we can overwrite numbers for all accounts?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Functionality already exists

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists