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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.

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


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PAW column widths

The column widths should reflect the size of the contents - or at least have a toggle to ask for it. Currently, small values or big values, the column width is fixed and needs to be set upfront. How do we know whether the user requests aggregated,...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

I created Trusted Credentials for my ID in the Cognos service account, but I am still not able to schedule any reports using the service account. OpenID proxy settings with AD

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=entry-trusted-credentials I created Trusted Credentials for my ID after logging into in the Cognos service account, but I am still not able to schedule any reports using the service account...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to toggle negative chart values to positive for correct display

When reporting from the Income Statement cube where revenue is naturally a negative (credit) value, any graphs using this information render incorrectly i.e. columns extend down instead of up. A toggle is required to allow the user to flip the cha...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rest API Native View Skip Consolidations

The native view entity object of the rest api does not include the skip consolidations property. This complicates things when copying native views with the rest api. I realize architect/perspectives will be deprecated at some point and native view...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add support for inline file attachment editing of Microsoft Visio documents

Users can open Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages. Every time a user clicks save within a file that is opened in this way, the file is saved in the OpenPages file repository. However, other users cannot see the changes until the file i...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support for datetime with timezone

Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names: “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZO...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Sticky selection for "Items per Page" viewing in Data Management Console

When I choose the number of ITEMS PER PAGE to display for DB monitoring or in the Notification Center, the value is not maintained from session to session. It would be great to allow users to choose the values to display, or to choose which value ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Open connectivity into Cognos FM packages for 3rd party tools ala Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx

Cognos Analytics Framework Manager packages probably constitute the best data governance platform in the market and it would be of even greater value if we could leverage our modeling investment by having connector access to the packages in 3rd pa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration