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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Deployment of Individual Data Modules

Problem: You cannot select Datamodules individually for exporting/deployment. The only option is to select a folder. This creates problems if you have a central Packages/Data module location for you business users. You cannot deploy a single or mu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Reporting on Bounced Emails

I would like to be able to receive a notification from Cognos when an emailed report from Cognos Cloud cannot be delivered due to the recipient email address not existing. I'm thinking of situations where an email address was entered incorrectly, ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Copy a tab from one dashboard to a another dashboard

I would like to have an option to copy whole tabs from dashboard 1 to dashboard 2. I know the option pins, but that is only for items. The option copy tabs is necessary for my management dashboards.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to apply the "Set as home" feature to folders

Please restore the ability to set a folder as home using the "Set as home" feature. Currently, this feature only applies to objects like reports and dashboards. This feature was available for folders in versions prior to Cognos Analytics.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

KPI visualization in reporting

The KPI widget in dashboarding is a much used visualization. It gives a lot of insight, without using much realestate. However it isn't available in reporting. Having the visualization available in reporting would enhance the reporting experience ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted