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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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.

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



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More versatile scheduling options to PA chores

I think current scheduling options to PA chores is out-dated. You can set chore to run once per day, or you can set chore to run custom frequency days-hours-minutes-seconds. Thats it, no more options. Real life scenarios to versatile scheduling op...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Add cancel function on chat page when executing asynchronous tools.

When executing asynchronous tools with long run and wxo not receiving callbacks, the chat is locked, and the user cannot execute further actions or delete the chat. We need cancel function on the chat page, so that the user can either stop or aban...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Add date information on chat page

We need to see date and time of chat on chat page. We can see only time of the day.
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Needs more information

Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Date and User selector type Question in Questionnaire

It would be better to have the Date and User single and multi-select as question type in Questionnaire
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

We should be able to alter the timeout of GPU runtime jobs

We want to submit a GPU runtime job, but all GPU resources are currently in use. If the job stays in the queue for some time but still no resources become available, it will fail with the error message: failed: 0/7 nodes are available.... We want ...
7 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Under review