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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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Synchronize Dimensions between specific objects/visualizations

A client/end user requests the functionality of Synchronization of Dimensions between specific Objects in PA Workspace. Additional to already implemented synchronization of dimensions per page or book our client asked for a sync. between objects o...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Lockable/Static Visualizations

A client/end user requests the functionality of lockable/static visualizations in PA Workspace:Specific Users/Groups should not be able to change the 'settings'/properties/selected sets of given visualizations in dashboards or reports.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

can we make file connector to read file only in directory with name matched to the wildcard pattern

The File connector is unable to read expected partitions data : Expected to read data from all partitions excluding part_num=0, but it is reading data from part_num=1, part_num=10, part_num=11, part_num=12 and part_num=2 only. Expected Format as p...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Set scrollable area height for lists in other metric units (like percentage, cm, etc.)

On some occasions we make a scrollable report for customers. In this situation the reports we make contains one or more lists with a lot of items where the customer can scroll to find his information. Because not all users have the same computer m...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User permission to view Analytics for specific APIs only(API Connect)

The reference is taken from API Connect 2018 4.1.8 VMWARE version. Currently a user who is logged in to API Manager can view Analytics data for all APIs. So a user would be knowing the details of all the transaction. So certain users should be ab...
almost 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Client libraries size

As explained in the case, we consider the size of the libraries that need to be included are big for the client. For us is a concern that we need to distribute an additional 192MB with our executables. It's our impression that symphony c++ client ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt page issue when a user makes a selection on a value prompt

Making a selection in a value prompt on the prompt page causes the page to refresh and the control goes to the top of the page. When using a screen reader the tab key must be used to navigate back to the value prompt.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

An option in Chart Properties in Report Studio that allows charts to autosize

Customer would like to have the percentage option available when resizing charts. In the Size & Overflow option that changes the size of the report the customer would like a percentage option that would make resizing easier and more universal ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists