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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Mapping wxO groups to groups in OKTA SSO

We are planning to have three groups(Admin, Builder and User) in our OKTA SSO. We need the capability in Watsonx Orchestrate to read the Groups of the user in SAML, and provide the respective access in WatsonX platform. Example: If a user belongs ...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

Information Server 11.7.1.5 certify Teradata TTU v20

RBC currently has over 50 projects with more than 10,000 jobs running on Teradata v17.20. The Teradata DB is scheduled to be upgraded to v20 in January 2026. However, TTU v20 is not yet certified with IIS 11.7.1.5, and the minimum required IIS ver...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

PAW: clickable hyperlink in cell of cube view

In Planning Analytics Workspace, allow clickable hyperlinks in cells of cube views.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 10 Planned for future release

Implementation SPSS Modeler's new visualization feature "View Data" as a node.

SPSS Modeler stores the various operations in a stream, making it very easy to run the same operation over and over, or to run the same operation on different data. Because View Data is not implemented as a node, the configuration is not stored in...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Multi-selectors and option to receive synchronization events

Multi-selectors in PAW can only send synchronization events, but cannot receive them. While this works for certain requirements, it presents risks when synchronization is enabled book wide, as illustrated in the example below. It would be helpful ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release