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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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Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Access to audit data

We have created a dashboard to be able to do analysis on the audit data in our Cognos Analytics on Cloud hosted environment. The issue is that the IBM CAoC provided audit database is too slow, so the widgets are never able to complete, and the das...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Copy Streams

When using SPSS Modeler, data scientists may want to use existing streams as a base, or just copy them as backups. This is not possible (SPSS Modeler in CP4D), the only workaround is to export to local str-file and create a new Stream using the ex...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Numeric Range Picklist

There are many occassion that we may need to create a picklist with numeric range, say 1~100 or maybe 1%~100%, and including decimal places. If we need to do it using the traditional way like static: or dimension: or subset:, the list could be ver...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Workflow system fields

Ability to capture the stage name from the action going into that stage into an object field such that this can be made available to the user/reporting for understanding the current position in the workflow. The current system fields are transitor...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Enable Theme Background Color Change on OpenPages Header

It would be really cool to allow a custom theme background color on the Header. I think someone mentioned this in the context of using the header for different types of alerting or bulletein e.g. making it red to draw attention. This would be the ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

PAW - Recent workbooks in main drop down list menu

The home screen of PAW allows users to select a recent workbook that they had open. It would be fantastic to have this same option in the main drop down list menu in the top left, to avoid having to first navigate to the home screen before being a...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration