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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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Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing more than one label in the visualization map

Showing more than one label in the visualization map
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Arm64 support for Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx

I am trying to use the dotnet library Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx on an Apple Macbook M3 Pro, but it fails to work. I was told it is because the library does not support Arm64 systems. Can we add Arm64 support? See this thread for back story.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 4 Functionality already exists

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add support for Hadoop corresponding to AWS EMR 7.8.x

OCLC have many critical business use cases around Hadoop and run an open-source flavor of it. They are currently running components corresponding to Cloudera CDP 7.1.7 but are planning to move to components corresponding to AWS EMR 7.8.0 and are a...
6 months ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

PAW: dimension synchronization in same book

Currently, it is possible to set dimension synchronization for the entire book, or turn it off. I would be nice to set synchronization same dimension only for specific objects / lists in book. For example: dim Country is synchronized in the list 1...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Auto selection of same Object type Primary Parent.

Currently , when a existing primary parent is disassociated , the new primary parent is selected based on chronological order even when we update the heuristic setting to "Folder Context". For example if the Risk is the Primary Parent of the Contr...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration