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


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PAW/CA Canvas grid size improvements

Upon analysis, the current behavior of dashboard is the following. In relative mode, the horizontal fit is constantly activated and we can’t disable it. That’s why the pixel scaling of the grid is always wrong. Once the width or height becomes rel...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JDBC and ODBC driver for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

We see a lot of customers moving to D365 from AX2009 and AX2012, most of the customers have a datavarehouse between their Cognos solution, but nearly every customer also have the need for live ad-hoc reporting as well, when they have month closing...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FMT function required for MSIF Services in FinPlus

FMT Function for SIPN-FIN Service is available. But there isn't a similar function for MSIF Service in FinPlus. There will be cost implication if the routing is done through SWIFT.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Personnalized Session Parameter

We need to add a Session Parameter available in Frame Work Manager or Report. The purpose is to personnalize a parameter by environnment production, validation, etc in the Cognos configuration context and use it in FM or Report.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Table - De-/Select all elements in the filter

I'm missing an option to select and deselect alle elements in the filter dialog of the data table.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add the ability to manage language for the label of Drill-thru definition

Without this possibility, we must give a title containing the different languages (ex.: Analyse détaillée (Fr)/ Detail analysis(En))
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Tool for Cubes (Dimensional Data Source) add option for Members Only view in insertable objects pane

Make it easier to use our existing cubes (dimensional data) in Dashboard tool to only see the Members Only view in the insertable objects. This option is available in the reporting tool. Right now not having this view makes the dashboard too cumbe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration