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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.

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New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedSum

2 new consolidation functions ConsolidatedSum(flag-value, cube-name, element_1, element_2,… ); ConsolidatedSum calculates the sum value in a consolidation and returns a single value. I know that this is the same as not having a rule in place, bu...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to specify NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations

With multiple CP4D appliances, and multiple NetBackup Media Server Clusters, it would be beneficial to be able to specify the NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations to match that of the most local NetBackup copy. For instance, CP4D applianc...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Session No and Sequence Number to identify message are not available.

In MER, Entry and Repair message, after queue selection, The Message List inside Each Queue:Session No and Sequence Number to identify message are not available. It is very critical requirement for customer.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Not under consideration

Allow Exploration views to accomodate larger views to eliminate double scroll bars (minimum 60 columns vs current 30)

In retail we are often analyzing data by week. Currently the exploration view is only equipped to handle 30 columns with the view expanded to eliminate double scroll bars. When we were having an exploration with all 52 weeks we are left to have th...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OPL language enhancements : cannot slice with nested constraints on subTuples

I've been a happy user of OPL language, which has lots of wonderful features. However, there is one remaining recurrent issue in data modeling, which prevents some intuitive modeling. This is called "cannot slice with nested constraints on subTupl...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration