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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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Info report about users who have not logged in for x days (configurable)

Admin should be able to login and generate a report about users who were given access but haven't logged onto the platform for 30 days (or 60 or 90 days).
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Freely Move Legends on Visuals (Not specific locations)

Users need the ability to freely move the legend to maximize space when building a dashboards. The do not like being restricted to (top, bottom, left, right) as sometimes there are more ideal legend positions that help to maximize information dens...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

multilanguage translations to datamodules, same as in frameworkmanager

As an international company we need translations of attributes within datamodules to different language. This affects the attribute names and also the delivered content / flied in the database to for example multiple translations. For a example a...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Undo button in PAx cube viewer

Add undo button to cube viewer, to reverse changes made to the views. This can be one button in conjunction with the data entry undo button that exists in Perspectives, or a separate button if necessary.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

11.1 Visualization options that are in legacy charts

11.1 visuals should have features of legacy charts. Categorical and value baselines (static and based on query calculation). Should be able to have background (region) colors in charts (static values, percentages, and layout calcs). Additional axi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Planned for future release

Responses from action buttons in PAW/PAfE

PAW action buttons should provide a confirmation like “do you really want to… Yes/No” or at least the option to activate such a confirmation dialog if needed. And in a similar way messages from Turbo Integrator processes and especially the result ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make map visualization viewable in PDF format

The interactive map visualization is a fine thing while using it interactively online. Some of our users would like to put them (of course in the starting zoom level) in pdf-reports, which is not possible. They could use legacy visualization like ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release