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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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Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Read only access to IBM openpages configurations

as like read only access on ibm openpages objects via roles. Is there a way to have read only access on IBM openpages configurations like workflow, views, calculations, etc.. This will help business admins can view the configurations and recommend...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

LOAD utility - Replace Duplicate row entries under RESUME YES option

When we try to use the DSNUTILB utility to LOAD data into a DB2 table with RESUME YES option, where we need to Load some set of records, which do have same Primary key values already existing in the Target table, then those records to be loaded ar...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a method to forcibly kick users from an instance

If the primary instance or any instance a user is logged into needs to be restarted or shutdown for either maintenance or technical issues this could help provide notification to the logged in users.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Add Team content and My content to the Tabs Area in Cognos 11.2

In stead of we all need to add an Extension adding Team Content and My content to the Tabs in Cognos 11.2. Could you just add in to the Tabs Recent and Get Started. It is the most used areas and the users must go to the Hamburger Menu to acces Tea...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration