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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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Enable the addition of users through the PAW front end.

It is not currently possible to add users to the TM1 DB without resorting to writing TI Scripts when managing the TM1 DB through the PAW front end. Whilst the TI process itself is fairly straightforward, many TM1 administrators are non technical a...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

IBM Cognos PowerCube packages to run in 64bit (DQM)

We have a distributed Cognos platform hosting more than 20 business aplications. As some of them use PowerCubes we have to keep Cognos 32bits dispatchers and manage double Cognos instances (32bits/64bits). Our target is a full 64bits platform (ful...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Audit

Cognos Audit "Administration Console"
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

PAW navigation button improvement

We propose to improve the function of the navigation button. Currently in the application, if the book contains a navigation button that opens another book in the same application, after clicking on the button another book is opened only separatel...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Task View Freeze Header

Openpages Task Focus UI should have capability to freeze the header panel for task views while scrolling vertically, all the 3 fields added on this panel should be freezed and visible on the whole view. This will be very helpful for end users.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Enable feature to view Tabular data and download in MS Excel from DASHBOARD module

System: Cognos Analytics DASHBOARD module/toolActor: Dashboard Module need to allow viewing data behind each dashboard element in tabular format and downloadable in MS Excel. The Team of Business Analytics working in Accenture would like to evalua...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration