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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at 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 search function Name - with double spacing

Names with two or more words and double space between them will in not be visible on the screen, one would have to export to Excel to see the extra space. In our case we have a lot of Names similar to each other, and searching for only first or la...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Provide doublet detection at the message type level, not just at the mandator level

The feature would allow doublets to have different configurations based on the type of message being processed. It would remove complexities of having to develop doublet detections across a wide variety of message types. It would reduce chance of ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Reports: Ability to include Report Execution Timestamp in the notification Email

We have a client requirement where client wants to include the report execution timestamp in the notification email which is sent to them for a scheduled report. Currently, in the Notification email, we cannot add any metadata related to the Repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notebook visualization don't show what notebook and path the visualization was add from

I am look at a sample and it is telling the notebook needs to be relinked. Since I didn't create the dashboard or report, I can only guess what notebook the visualization came from and the name of the visualization from the notebook. Need to be ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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