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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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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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Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

TM1Web Excel grouping

Add the functionality to use excel grouping in websheets
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

metadata ddl change information in the SMP/e HOLD and offer new utility similar to Db2z CATMAINT

Whenever new db2zAI fix introduces metadata catalog changes. customer is trying to make sure their next upgrade/maintenance rollout would take backup and fallback procedures into account Customer suggests Db2zAI upgrade/maintenance SMP/e deliverab...
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Frozen crosstab columns and rows in Cognos reports as a default

In current Cognos Analytics versions it is possible to freeze crosstab columns and rows in reports by right-clicking them. Could it be possible to add report feature that you could set crosstab columns and rows as frozen already when designing rep...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

ReCalc functionality (as in Perspectives) need to available in PAX

TM1 ReCalc functionality on Perspectives should be available on PAX as well, which is not the case currently. As Perspectives / CAFE would be replaced with PAX now or sooner, all Macro functionalities are expected to be work on Planning analytics ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

It should be possible to use subsets in DBRW formulas in PAX

It is possible to have a subset reference in DBRW formula in Perspectives, the formula is then using the total for all subset elements. This idea has not been implemented in PAX. If the user upgrades to the new version of PA and wants to use exist...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release