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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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Planning Analytics Upgrade - Automatically update VBA code

As part of the PA upgrade due in 2025 as the old version goes out of support we need to rewrite all VBA code for the new RESTFUL API. Perhaps watsonx can help to automate that for us and any other upgrade activities.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Percentage in stacked bar charts

We want to show percentage in stacked bar charts. When the value axis shows absolute values, we'd like to display the percentage inside the bars additionally. This functionality is provided for pie charts: show absolute value and percentage. The s...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide functionality to pass prompt values in parameterized URLs to Dashboards.

An external application uses Cognos Report URLs with Prompt parameters to open Cognos reports filtered with prompts values and want to have the same functionality available for Cognos Analytics Dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration