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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.

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Dashboard Webpage Widget to Embed Report - Run Report Full Screen Option

When using the webpage widget within the dashboard to embed a report on the dashboard, the report is not full screen (shows the cognos menu bars). It would be nice to maximize the report size by running full screen. An option in the widget propert...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in most...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Ability in Workspace Advanced to filter on level attribute

Hi, Our customer needs to create List reports based on Olap source, and wishes the possibility to filter on Level attributes.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reschedule multiple batch jobs (multi-select) at the same time

Our clients use Maintain -> Batch Queue -> Manage in order to reschedule batch jobs in Cognos Controller. They reschedule them to be executed immediately. The jobs are put in a queue which is fine and executed as configured (1 by 1). Unfo...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

About available languages of when defining Entity/Relation in Knowledge Studio.

I would like to request Japanese added to characters that can be used for Entities/Relations in Knowledge Studio. (This request is strongly seek by our clients of a major cosmetics manufacturer that has expanded worldwide through our Project.) the...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow hierarchical view to select objects

Some objects can be naturally represented in a hierarchical view (for ex. Structures, Business Entities, etc.). In OpenPages today it is possible to create new elements in the tree, associate elements to objects, etc., by selecting them from a lis...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Websheets in PAW should Update other PAW objects on data change/refresh

Currently PAW objects will refresh on data change. However websheet objects do not cause other objects to refresh. IE entering data in a websheet widget won't cause a chart or grid widget on the page to update even if a recalculate is performed. T...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To add an SFTP configuration so that we can push output files on different shared folders

Mainly we need to push the result sheet for any COGNOS report on separate folder for each user not only one shared path . As of now and as you suggested the folder configuration is being done on server level and all the reports will use the same f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics create a new Excel file on Snapshot

In Planning Analytics for Excel snapshot can only be created in either the existing Excel file as either a new sheet or the current sheet. We would like to request Planning Analytics create a new Excel file.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration