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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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Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Workspace No Autofit column widths?

Workspace cube view displays will not autofit column width to a viewable length. Double clicks don't seem to work either on the width marker.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Update references for derived query items when changing the query operation/reference

For advanced reports it is essential to operate with derived queries. Such queries are using a query operation (like join, union etc.) or a query reference as the data source. You often get to the point where you need to make changes to your deriv...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Have a trigger in the widget which can generate an MDX query based on the selected row

Hello,Our internal customers have seen a very helpful and intuitive feature in Anaplan and we're trying to mimic it in PAW. Basically, you've got two grid widgets. When you click on a row of the first widget, the second widget refresh itself accor...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

We would like to have FTM in High Availability

In an HA environment with 2 FTM SWIFT nodes there is a restriction to have a single copy of the FTM SWIFT code in a shared library /usr/lpp/IBM/ftmswift/v300, visible from both LPARs
almost 7 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Under review

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio capabilty to rerun a failed report automatically

We have a daily event that runs a job containing many reports. This event is kicked out by a trigger. There are sporadic instances when the job runs and one report may fail. It would be nice to have a 'task' that could rerun a failed report in a job.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration