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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 function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Cognos Analytics integration with Salesforce

Current state IBM Cognos Analytics ability to integrate with / pull metadata from Salesforce is extremely limited. Unable to select tables/schemas using new "Manage" administration functionality or create data modules using Salesforce data. Legacy...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

}ROLLUP_ELEM functionality

Users have the ability in Perspectives to create adhoc }ROLLUP_ELEM_ consolidations to aggregate elements is private views. This functionality does not work in PAfE.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable TM1 to ignore feeder revaluation on startup even when feeder files are out of date.

Administrators need a way to force TM1 server to use the feeder files that are in the data directory, even if they are deemed invalid or out of date. Case: TS001164298
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include notifications for recent changes (API Connect v10)

This is for API-Connect v10 (OVA install). In v5, there was a feature where one could view a notification bell in the top right corner when logging into the cloud manager or api manager that would show recent changes (Ex: xyz api was published, et...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

Script to automatically deactivate users who are terminated in the organization.

Client would like to send a file with the list of all the termed users to IBM and request IBM to use the file to automatically deactivate the users from the planning analytics environments.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Disable viewing subsets for selected Planning Analytics dimensions

Having many subsets in Planning Analytics dimensions is very heavy for Cognos Analytics when loading the package. We would like to chose if CA have to load subsets for a dimension in a cube or not: for some dimensions is very helpful to see all su...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Counter examples Managed in the UI

As a developer I would like to manage counter examples in the UI in order to be able to remove them after they were place there via "Mark as Irrelevant" feature.
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Backup Failure Alert

Having a push notification of a failure of a business critical event would be very convenient. Currently we would need to sign in to the console on the same frequency as the backup to ensure that it is completing successfully. If we received an em...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration