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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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Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Accessibility Enhancement: Provide accessible name and accessible description for scroll bar arrows on visualizations

Requesting to add accessible name and accessible description for the intent of the scroll bar arrows on the visualization. The screen tip indicating scroll up or scroll down when hovering over the arrows will enable screen reader audience to under...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Consistent Notation and Automatic Indentation for TI Snippets & Autocomplete in PAW

Dear IBM team, In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW, current version 2.1.16), there is still inconsistency in notation and formatting between autocomplete suggestions and inserted code snippets in the TurboIntegrator (TI) editor. Additionally, sni...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Default formatting for Universal Reports

Universal reports come with default conditional formatting. Would like some control over those defaults, specifically we often times don't want the repeat labels to be "transparent" or white font.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhance rule based business term assignment to allow column name and the column's parent asset name to be specified in a single rule.

Please review the following slack posts for further details. https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1765407815499829 As Oliver Suhre outlined in the above slack post thread: "To add this functionality, we could introduce a new propert...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

PAFE Viewer Window Should Not Close When the Workbook is Closed

Currently, when a workbook is closed it will also close any PAFE Viewer windows that are associated with that workbook. Users do not think of the viewer window to be related to a workbook. It does not even prompt that the viewer windows will be cl...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Raise BUFND in DSNJLSR and associated log access modules

Performance in all services which read log records from the log copies or from archive log, e.g. DSN1LOGP, RECOVER, Online REORG, BACKOUT processing, Db2 restart and probably some more. Tests were already done for the log access via DSNJLSR and th...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Talend-spark ETL job support on watsonx.data Spark engine.

A customer is using Talend studio to develop and run ETL job that uses Apache Spark on CDH 7.1.7. It will be a plus point for watsonx.data to support integration with Talend use the watsonx.data Spark engine to run the same ETL job benefits - easy...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 3 Future consideration

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Master Data Management support on DB2 v12.1

DB2 v12.1 support for Master Data Management. DB2 v11.5.7.* EOS is April 2027.
4 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review