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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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Create a Cell Security Check Function, similar to CellIsUpdatable, but retuning READ/WRITE/NONE based on the client access.

In our models, we allow users to run TI processes to move data from a generic Staging Cube to the final Planning Cubes. The staging cube accepts free text input as the target dimensions which makes harder to implement security directly on that cub...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW: unique field in permission setting

In PAW, user’s name is used to identify user (e.g.: when permission setting) even through name is not unique parameter. When you have two users with same name, you cannot recognize them when permissions setting. Therefore, we suggest that unique f...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Drillthrough component between Powerplay and Report Studio 64bit

Hello, we use Powerplay and drillthrough reports in Report Studio. We need to install a 32bit dispatcher that powerplay drillthrough function is working. The reason is the component of drillthrough definition which requires a 32 bit report service...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) managed database services for content/audit stores

Currently, if we opt to use one of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) to host Cognos Analytics Local, we are required to provision a self-managed database host and database in order to host the Cognos Analytics content stores. This limits ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Thread filter in the server log

When watching the live log it is often necessary to focus on a single thread. Currently the search function helps with finding the lines related to a thread but a better solution would be to have a filter next to the already existing filter for Le...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bar charts conditional formatting in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

Despite the fact that over time more formatting options for visualizations in PA Workspace have become available, there is still no option to set conditional formatting for bar charts in a way that allows the color to depend on the value. Our user...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted