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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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Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Be able to easy do a multi select in a view in PAW.

It should be possible to create a multi select, i.e a subtotal, as easy as it is to create a subset when using views in PAW.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Save As for a TI Processes in PAW?

Today there is the only a save button inside the TI Editing window in PAW. A "Save As" button would be useful.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Save off openshift logs when a POD is recycled or crashes.

When an OPENSHIFT POD is either recycled or if a POD crashes the log conatined within the POD is lost. Even though there are 3rd party options to save the log(s) we believe IBM should make it part of their deployment to have the logs saved off. Th...
8 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 2 Functionality already exists

PAW - Synchronization on several tabs

Hi, On PAW, dimensional synchronization is only possible on a single tab, but it would be interesting to be able to synchronize dimensions on several tabs, so as not to have to redefine all the selections from one tab to another. Best regards, Romain
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Custom Subtotal in PAW book.

We would like to have a Custom Subtotal feature in Planning Analytics Workspace book so that we can calculate on the fly for the selected dimension elements or Measures.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Functionality already exists