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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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Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

As a Business Analyst, I would like to be able to save my DataSet via Cloud connexion

To have a scalable native storage of dataset, I would like to be able to set as storage target the Cloud connexion defined for the IBM Cognos Analytics platform If the data files are in parquet format, it would be ideal
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Update DataSource connection details via a config file or DB sql

Our install is on WINOS and consider 'on-prem' type.we migrate our prod Cognos to lower non-prod by way of Oracle DB DMP export and then Import that into our target Nonprod env Cognos db.we have steps sql steps and UI operations to cull and remove...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

display image in cells same as EXCEL

Sometimes, customers need some pictures to assist them when filling out forms. Currently, PAW/TM1Web can only support displaying URL Links in cells. Can it display pictures directly?
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW/TM1Web EXPORT function by different user/group

From a security perspective, the data stored in TM1 is very sensitive. PAW/TM1web provides the EXPORT EXCEL/PDF function, which is a very good function. However, it is necessary to grant different permissions to users/groups to perform this EXPORT...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted