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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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Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Adapt PAW to corporate identity

Regarding «corporate usability» PAW should provide a way to adapt the start page to corporate identity of a company, e.g. you should be able to replace this IBM Watson banner by a company graphic or place a company logo somewhere.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Centralized definition of PAW elements and objects

There should be a centralized definition of PAW elements and objects, e.g. size, colour, look, … of a button, a view/table or a workbook. These definitions should be applied when creating an according object. And if you change these definitions, a...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Responses from action buttons in PAW/PAfE

PAW action buttons should provide a confirmation like “do you really want to… Yes/No” or at least the option to activate such a confirmation dialog if needed. And in a similar way messages from Turbo Integrator processes and especially the result ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

11.1 Visualization options that are in legacy charts

11.1 visuals should have features of legacy charts. Categorical and value baselines (static and based on query calculation). Should be able to have background (region) colors in charts (static values, percentages, and layout calcs). Additional axi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Current date to filter dashboard/report by default

Have a current date that globally can filter reports/dashboards without having to manually select it. When running a dashboard it should automatically be filtered for current day/week/month/year if thats in the dashboard
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Cascading Dimension Selection

Being able to define cascading selection in the PA Workspace. We would like to have an improvement to either use a subset related on another dimension selection, or being able to use variables in the MDX statement to refer to another dimension sel...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow Multiple Sessions of CA in Edge Browser

In IE, it is possible to open multiple sessions of CA, for instance a CA Development env, Test env, and Production env all at the same time. When attempting to do so with Edge, a cookie error results. Not sure if the architecture of Edge will perm...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Override Task View on End Stage

The workflow now has a new feature to override Task Views (read only fields, guidance etc) but this seems to be missing from the End Stage. The End Stage almost always needs to be overridden as many fields become Read Only. This was originally rai...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration