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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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Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past without the need to have previously saved a reporting period (snapshot). It should ideally roll-up all data changes occurred in the database till ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Future consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Materialize a reorg pending change through part-level reorgs

At the moment an AREOR exception state can only be solved by reorganizing the whole (partitioned) tablespace in one go. We want to do the materialization in several sequential steps on a part-level base.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

There is no control over how calculate items are calculated at a summary level as they are in Report Authoring.

I have a problem with a calculated expression on a Dashboard. It works good on all the rows except the last one, where the total value isn't calculated. I also can't format the column as a percentage
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Isolate Cognos image location from custom images

Currently customer custom images are uploaded to ../webcontent/bi/images. This is the same location as where Cognos specific images are stored. Requesting that the Cognos specific images and customer images be saved to independent locations.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Track effects of model changes

Cognos Analytics to get a feature so when you update/publish a new version of a module or data set to re-write over the old version Cognos to indicate the impact or reports and dashboards, if columns will be effected and which reports the change w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: Customized login error messages for non authorized users

Problem: When setting up PAW to allow for user imports (ENABLE_USER_IMPORT = false configuration setting) the message a user that tries to log on to Planning Analytics license without being set up as a PAW user is not user friendly and looks very...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration