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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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No Option to edit or view the calculated column or row in PAW

Once Calculated column is defined and created on the view in PAW, there is no option available to edit the defined calculation. Even we tried Trace cell option for both consolidated and leaf level cells but could not find what calculation was adde...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Hide Parent for DrillDown

We are using a Tree-Map and when DrillingDown one member the parent also stays visible. For Visualizations this can be misleading or confusing for the viewer and so far you have to click manually on the parent element to hide it again. This exampl...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Programmatically control textbox contents either with MDX or sync dimension widget

To provide a better user experience if we could control the contents of a textbox by synchronizing to a dimension we can provide titles and report headings that update based on user selections giving more meaning\readability for visualizations. Pr...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Using Aliases or Language Localization for dimensions in Trace cell window in PAW/PAX

Ability to chose Dimension Alias for building Trace calculations formulas or\and using Planning Analytic's localization functionality to generate formula's descriptions based on end-user language
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration