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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.

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PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Link to Source Report for Report Views

Link to source report from report views has been removed. We use lot of report views with set prompts and do change these prompjt values from time to time also point report views to other reports when a newly developed report is to used.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Newer Model Support in Assistant Builder Features

Per the official documentation only four models can be used for the watsonx Orchestrate Assistant Builder features (e.g., Conversational Search Answer Generation, Conversational Search Query Rewrite, Conversational Skills, and Custom Action Inform...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

How to thicken a pie chart border in Dashboard in Cognos 12

Please take a look at the attached file.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Create forms directly on the AI Agent

At the moment, AI Assistant works primarily in a Q&A style. However, in some use cases, such as when users need to input personal information for a credit card application, using a form provides a much better user experience. Currently, we are...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Functionality already exists

Support running multiple workflows at the same time

Current State: Manta currently does not allow running multiple workflows at the same time. However only writing and reading from Neo4j cannot happen at the same time. Therefore a lot of the steps that Manta can run in parallel, such as extraction,...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

SAS: Do not scan/show files containing macros and other functions

Background: SAS code is organized in several files. For example driver.sas and driver2.sas files both call child.sas, which then calls grandchild.sas. When Manta is asked to scan the codebase, it will show the code in grandchild.sas 4 times, once ...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release