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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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Show members for relational data in Reporting like in 11.1.5 Dashboards

As of CA 11.1.5 members can be shown for and used with relational data in Dashboards and Data Modules. That would be a great feature in Reporting as well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple cache states for virtual dynamic cubes

Current design allows two cache states per dynamic cube, ie. to allow reports to be successfully executed, during a member cache refresh. With virtual cube this exposes a errornous situation, when the member cache of both base cubes are refreshed ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to store and write data into the audit db after a short network issue

When the connection to the Audit DB is lost for a few minutes the created audit data during that time is not written into the db afterwards.In case a RemoteLogServer is in place as a single point of logs the dispatcher who send the logs to the Rem...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

hiding the left bar in PAW for end users

We want to hide by default left bar for end users in paw application. Please refer the screenshot for better understanding
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Combo Charts: Columns and lines get fed from the same dimensions

Currently columns and lines need to be fed from different dimenskons. To fully leverage that chart type, it needs to be possible to have columns and bars fed from the same dimension.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Allow CPD Admin to list all "Connection" objects and check whether tha connection is using Personal or Shared Credential

CPD allows user to create connection with Personal or Shared credential. By the default, the option is default to Shared Credential. Almost enterprise organization prevent their user to use shared credential, so there is a requirement to allow CPD...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration