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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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Deletion of closed reporting periods

With the importance of deleting sensitive data combined with GDPR related duties, we would appreciate a solution to select and then delete (or anonymize) reporting periods. More specifically, our system includes various reportings happening on a q...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Revometer/Speedometer Graph

We are beginning to see an increasing demand for the "Revometer" graph from our "non-finance" folks. These customers will automatically disengage with stacked graphs/pie charts etc, which appear to "finance centric".
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove an alias from a subset

The TI function SubsetAliasSet can be very useful. But what if we want to remove the alias from the subset and just return principal names ? Is this function/possibility missing ? Can't we reuse the last argument in SubsetAliasSet, supply an empty...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report options like "Double-click on member action" should be a personal preference.

While authoring a report it is possible to set some options. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_set_options.html). These options are saved in the browser cookies. The...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for all High Availability Disaster Recovery features for all supported Content Store Databases

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence does currently not offer support for High Availability Disaster Recovery Features (HADR) of Databases that are used as Content Stores. Full support for all HADR Features of each supported Content Store Database Typ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated Copy forward opening balances

Following on the automation theme. Users have requested an automated copy forward opening balances feature
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User should be able to use not only technical meta but also business terms which are assigned to technical terms or which are described in order to find some fields/columns when they create ETL jobs or dashboards

This is for function enhancement request, not for bug fix request, but one of my customer requests bellow function enhancement strongly. [request detail] Once User run asset discovery so as to assign business meta against technical asset such as t...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration