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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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Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Continue to support for websheets added by reference

Planning Analytics no longer supports Websheets that were added by reference. This feature has been supported in all past versions, and should continue to be supported
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Wrap text feature for row/column/title labels in PAW book.

On PA Workspace local release 27, there is no settings to wrap text/word for row/column/title labels in PAW. As a consequence, row/column/title labels has been truncated not fitting in the width.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Design Extensions and Image Libraries for individual tenants

Design Extensions and Image Libraries for individual tenants
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

CP4D WKC DQ Output Links

While creating DQ rules with external binding, I would like to have the possibility to include additional columns in the output links. Currently, functionality is only supported for output table.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Change the PAW waiting icon

We want to heavily use PAW to present reports. However, as PAW syncs across books, users MUST know to give PAW a second to sync. The WAIT icon is far too transparent/translucent in PAW. Make it obvious that the user needs to wait. Here's a use c...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Have DO for DSX not only in DSXL but also in Watson Studio

DO for DSX help DSXL customers deploy optimization. With Watson Studio we have less flexibility to do that. We should have that available to ease adoption of Decision Optimization by Watson Studio customers
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists