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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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Color-coding report tabs

Report pages can be rendered as tabs in Reporting. However, it is not easy to differentiate one page from another. It would be easier if the tabs could be formatted with different colors
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

PA Decimal Places not user defined

PA does not allow one to change the number of decimals. Default is 2 decimals. Not sure why we would want 2 decimals, however PA should have the option to change. Current SAP BI allows user to change the number of decimals displayed. SunRice would...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need way for users to inspect Element Weight properties

In Perspectives our user would inspect the Element weight in the Dimension properties to ensure the weighting set for roll ups is correct. No longer an options for Non-Admin users in PAx or PAw
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow selective email overrides for the Notification Default Sender

Users who initiate a burst report, have the default email address taken from Cognos Configuration under "Notifications". Several users would like to be able to override the default email address with their company email address. Currently this ove...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the passing of non-text attribute values into overwritable text attributes

Non-text attribute values (numeric, timestamps, amounts, etc) are unable to be passed into overwritable inputs or outputs which are defined as text. Would like the ability to pass the output of any attribute into an attribute defined as text.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) - Allow the use of subsets in the DBRW function

In Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) the DBRW Excel function does not allow to use subsets to retrieve data, but only dimension members, unlike with Planning Analytics Perspectives where the use of subsets is allowed in the DBRW function. At Bac...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

EF Core driver needs to support value convertors

Your DB2 Entity Framework Core driver does not support value convertors. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/value-conversions Value convertors are really useful with databases to do things like: Translate Y/N fields to proper boolea...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RFE to support more than one Workflow parameter values in common.properties file.

Hi Team, This RFE is to support more than one Workflow parameter values in common.properties file where we have vendor plugin related properties along with other property files. The reason being there might be some OOTB capabilities which refer...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Custom Property Field value needs to read from a database and be indexed alphabetically

The functionality for a Custom Attribute is to connect to a database and then read data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed so that the user can search by typing (e.g., suppose a user wants to search for "Alex Brown" f...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration