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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Improved Error Reporting

Error Messages - we can't retrieve data should be more helpful. eg "Cubename" cube doesn't exist, or "Cubename" cube has different dimensions, or "elementname" element on "dimensionname" dimension doesn't exist.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search reports sent to

I would like to be able to query who reports are delivered to.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate more Pax-native button functionality in PAW

In the first version of native PAW buttons there is one thing we miss compared to the PAX buttons we use now. With PAX buttons you can enable a prompt before a process is run, and define a notification at success or failure. It would be an impro...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drop Down Selector fill colour

The default background colour for Drop Down Selector is white without any ability to change the colour to fit with theme of the work book. The fill colour in general style only applies to the border colour.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

option to sort Waterfall by greatest change value

Using the Waterfall visualization, there is not a good way to sort the sub-categories. More specifically, if you are using a "Change" Waterfall which calculates variances, you must recalculate the variance manually if you wish to sort the sub-cate...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Folder Level Auditing Access Out of the Box

Currently out of the box Cognos audit data does not contain a clear and concise way to track user clicks at a folder level. We want to be able to easily track what folders a user has accessed out of the box. We want this solution without a complic...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IIDR STOPQ/STARTQ request should be executed in parallel beyond the queue

IIDR STOPQ/STARTQ command is isssued from customer created automated process. They are isssued for 5 queues in parallel.Customer's STARTQ will be isssued without minitoring if the previous STOPQ queue is complete through MSGASN7176I. If STOPQ proc...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Request Cognos Features

1. We need to be able to limit the number reports a specific user can run at once. 2. We also need to limit how many of a specific report can run at once.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for multiple TM1 login URI's

I know that you can enter several TM1 Admin Server URI's in PAW configuration by separating them by ; it would be great to be able to do same with TM1 Login Server URI's, to my knowledge this is not possible today.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep layout when sending Trial Balance to Excel

In a Trial Balance in Controller there are lines (between rows) to display which accounts are summation accounts. When sending the report to Excel the layout disappear. Consequently, the report in Excel are almost impossible to read. My customers ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration