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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.

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


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Updating Cognos Integration Server Connection from backend using SQL DB

This is regarding updating the Server details in the Connection from Cognos Integration Server. As a part of updating the BW server details, we need to do the following: 1)Export the selections 2) Delete the selections 3)update the connections 4) ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Attribute lists in PAW should be sorted alphabetically

In PAW when I want to select an attribute to display on a Grid, the list is not sorted alphabetically. This makes it very difficult to find the attribute that I want.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Want to use the crawl date as a date in the Content Miner when using the web crawler.

The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since June 2021. However the customer are suffering from lack of functionality in WD. In oneWEX, when crawled data with using the web crawler, it was possible to set ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Accessibility feature - access more menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard

In Dashboards it is not possible to access the (…) menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard. It should be possible to access the menu with the keyboard in order to assist users who have a disability.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PA Decimal Places not user defined

PA does not allow one to change the number of decimals. Default is 2 decimals. Not sure why we would want 2 decimals, however PA should have the option to change. Current SAP BI allows user to change the number of decimals displayed. SunRice would...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need way for users to inspect Element Weight properties

In Perspectives our user would inspect the Element weight in the Dimension properties to ensure the weighting set for roll ups is correct. No longer an options for Non-Admin users in PAx or PAw
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

BLU Load message improvement for SQL3119W

DB2 BLU load on LUW provides a less than optimal message for SQL1119W. It reports that an input data value has been replaced by NULL but does not indicate which specific input row caused the error resulting in no good way to troubleshoot the issue...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add permissions to allow a User to upgrade Discovery environment size

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Discovery ins...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Automatic refresh of object list after reopening Excel and changing the security

When reopening Planning Analytics for Excel (Excel) after modifying the security, the list of the accessible objects is not refreshed until we click on the refresh button of PAfE. This is confusing in some situation. Is it possible to make the ref...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration