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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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Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
3 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Light Theme in CP4D

A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.

Formatting Overlay Cube

I have a cube with a "Measure" dimension, which has elements like "Amount", "Variance %", etc. It also has a "Scale" dimension, which has elements like "Raw", "Millions", etc. I'm trying to achieve the following outcome: Amount, Raw = #,##0.000000...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Hide user input option in sub action in assistant steps

I am building an AI assistant and in that I am using many skill based actions in different steps appropriately as sub-actions. I am able to pass my variables to these skill based actions and receiving the response which I am using in further steps...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

PAW Book Selector Tile element source from Cube Cell

In a PAW book it would be good if a selector tile or list could source its starting element from a cube cell. Such as a user selection cube. Then on change of an element within the tile post this back to the same cube cell. This would enable users...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Cube Rule to get currently selected member/s from a selector and pass to a cell

It would be great from a UI perspective to be able to use a cube rule to get the value from a PAW selector + selector group to pass the selected element back to a string cell.Essentially this would enable the use of selectors to drive the model lo...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted