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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Ability to change type of element in PAW Dimension Editor

It is not possible to change the type of an element from eg Numeric to String in the Dimension Editor in PAW. This is possible in Perspectives.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Percentage view in stacked bar chart; display 0 as "zero" instead of distribution to 100%

In the screenshot, the number zero for the year 2035 in the stacked bar chart is split to 100% in the percentage view (each of the four members gets an equal split of 25%).The requirement would be to display the year 2035 as a 0 / white area in th...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Ability to add custom functions on RulesConsole

Hi, The idea comes from case # TS007161947. There is a RulesConsole page in Persona UI. Now, while construction of "if statements" (see the screenshot) there is possibility to select function, however users can't code their own function for any at...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support rich-text in annotations

Annotations should allow rich-text to provide formatting capabilites like bullet or numbered lists, bold, underlined and italic text and so on.It would be nice to allow ASCIIDoc or Markdown formatting (like in Jira or Gitlab).
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection: enable double-click on elipses from Search results to open or go to the objects parent location

when searching for objects, the results list has '/../' that when hovered over, displays the path for the object.Add ability to double click on the '/../' that opens or takes me to the objects parent location.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Ability to control Cognos for MS Office access via admin security

Ability to control if a user can use Cognos for Office plugin can be used.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RTM: add grid cache directory purge feature

currently, the directory use for job graphs (specified in the "Console->Grid Settings->Paths->Grid Cache Dir" field) is never clean up. can you please add feature to purge this directory to avoid disk space saturation ?
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Ability to customize default selection color in Active reports

Color customization for the container select and mouse hovering needs to be incorporated into report studio.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Cube Designer ability to re-order relative time members

ability to re-order members in a dimension's hierarchy relative time
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration