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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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Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log out screen for SSO implementation

IBM OpenPages ver. 9.0.0. has default session log out page with available User ID and Password fields (see picture no 1). This is ok however for implementations using SSO standard security requirement forbid such setting as a potential vulnerabili...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

To add an SFTP configuration so that we can push output files on different shared folders

Mainly we need to push the result sheet for any COGNOS report on separate folder for each user not only one shared path . As of now and as you suggested the folder configuration is being done on server level and all the reports will use the same f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics create a new Excel file on Snapshot

In Planning Analytics for Excel snapshot can only be created in either the existing Excel file as either a new sheet or the current sheet. We would like to request Planning Analytics create a new Excel file.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Filterbar Enhancement

When I embed a dashboard onto an intranet site using an iframe there appears to be no way to have the filterbar collapsed by default. I can hide the navbar and appbar but not set the filterbar to be hidden or at least collapsed by default. Adding ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable override of -u flag to docker in LSF

The docker LSF integration would be more useful if the user inside the container was not forced to be LSB_SUB_USER. It's not clear where this -u flag is being added to the docker command by LSF. The construction of this flag does not appear to be ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow hierarchical view to select objects

Some objects can be naturally represented in a hierarchical view (for ex. Structures, Business Entities, etc.). In OpenPages today it is possible to create new elements in the tree, associate elements to objects, etc., by selecting them from a lis...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Support of PARQUET file format with SPSS Modeler/ SPSS Analytic Server

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format. One of our SPSS Modeler customer who is evaluating SPSS Analytic Server at the moment would like to access to Parquet file format using SPSS products.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Counter examples Managed in the UI

As a developer I would like to manage counter examples in the UI in order to be able to remove them after they were place there via "Mark as Irrelevant" feature.
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration