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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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Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of security administration of capability Upload Files

In CA11, we can only administrate which group, role and user are granted or denied to use Capability Upload Files (Via Administration Console > Security > Capabilities > Upload Files). More permission details to secure per group, role and...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

COPY NO Indexes to be recorded in SYSLGRNX

It would be very helpful if ALL indexes are recorded in SYSLGRNX which will then open the possibility for a BACKOUT YES recovery for all TS+IX and avoid a potentially costly and long REBUILD INDEX for some very large tables and when backing out a ...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PAW: Percentage in stacked bar charts

We want to show percentage in stacked bar charts. When the value axis shows absolute values, we'd like to display the percentage inside the bars additionally. This functionality is provided for pie charts: show absolute value and percentage. The s...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Loss Entry Application enable association capabilities to other parent GRC objects

When entering a loss via the Loss Entry Application the user is currently unable to associate the loss to any other GRC objects outside of the business entity. The request is to enable the user the ability to see other parent GRC objects and assoc...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

PAx: Display attributes in rows in Explorations and Quick Reports

Related to PMR 86027,660,706 We need to display members attributes in rows or columns. Attributes generally give to the end user additional information during the input period. We tried various ways, like adding DBRA functions to the Quick Report ...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Missing Options in Set Editor in PAW/PAX

Set Editor does not have the following options in PAW or PAX, all below functionalities are available in Subset Editor. 1. No option to display All elements: The Set editor in PAW and PAX does not have the option of displaying all elements from th...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Creating Custom Consolidation in Set Editor for PAW/PAX

There is no option to create custom consolidation ( Equivalent to create rollup button in Subset Editor). Some of the rollups for reporting purposes are getting created by end users on the fly for analysis purposes which are not available in the d...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration