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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Enable non-admins to edit global color palettes

In the current versions of Cognos Analytics it is only possible for system admins to create, alter or delete global color palettes. Creating a capability would give power users the ability to edit the color palettes used in their dashboards withou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office)

Currently, the IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office) continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll) for authentication. For certain OIDC SSO setups, the use of Trident is causing incompatibility issues (such as Trident/IE being unable to handle ad...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Have the possibility to control the time range for the DSODB Dashboard.

Currently, we do not have any variable that can be set to control the DSODB Dashboard time range. The only existing way, is to manually update the value (3 times for the dashboard...), and this modification is only persisting for the session's coo...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make it simple to setup SSL connectivity

There must be something that can be done within Db2's installation/configuration steps to make it easy for users to enable SSL connections - as easy as it is to set up non-SSL connections (or as easy as typing "https://" in a browser window). This...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Reports not refreshed when a package is updated

After a package has been updated, all associated reports no longer use parameter caching to improve performance. In order to re-enable parameter caching, reports must be resaved manually, otherwise this may result in RSV-PMG-0003 errors. We woul...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
about 8 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Need Print Report Capability in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Our finance users use the "Print Report" capability in Perspectives. Using existing spreadsheets that include both TM1 formulas and excel formulas, they print these which resolve the tm1 formulas but maintain the excel fformulas and then use the b...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Is a defect

Add custom relationship towards reference data value - now there is only custom relationship towards reference data

I want to create a custom relationship from category to reference data value. At the moment that is not possible. I can create a relationship towards the whole reference data set, but not the individual values. For a term it is possible to create ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

VS Code hosted integrated in Watson Studio

Many data science code development tasks are analytical and can be done through the notebooks available. There are however tasks that require more sophisticated code develpment for which notebooks are not as suitable. For these it would be benef...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration