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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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create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Changing number of rows for Grid on Task view

Our customer requested that it would be useful if we can change the number of rows for Grid on Task view. Currently , it is fixed number like "Items per page: 10".
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

Customize PAW Welcome Page

Current welcome page does not allow for customization on the Overview Video section where it says Welcome to Planning Analytics with Watson ! Can you please consider allowing admin users in PAW to: change the black background to another color resi...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Ability to share widgets across User profiles

Provide a way to load widgets into a number of user profiles, just so their personalised dashboard would look the same. Some widgets are useful for a small set of users but not general enough to be shared across the entire dashboard configuration....
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

SPSS Modeler 18.1.1 on Windows's support for a data source PostgreSQL on RHEL

System: SPSS Modeler 18.1.1 Actor: User needing a PostgreSQL data source to support SPSS Modeler on Windows platform as well as a current Linux support Description: In Japan, there are many PostgreSQL users including the customer for this request ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Upgrades: Stop schedules upon import but not disable

Upon import, allow the administrator to turn off all schedules to prevent them from running in two locations at the same time (the old instance and the new). This is most relevant when upgrading. Note, this must be a separate option than enable/di...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from. A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration