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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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Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI. Currently at some page, EDIT button could only perform DELETE, e.g. 1. Go to Business Term artifact option 2. On the Right Hand side you will EDIT button ,click on Edit 3. Edit enables checkbox...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Is a defect

Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Ability to Search Attributes/Columns in Workspace Advanced

We utilize Cognos Workspace Advance for Adhoc reporting needs. Often the number of attributes or columns in the Dimensions or Query Subjects are quite high, which makes it difficult for users to lookup the right attribute/column. We would like to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Forecast feature to work with Leaves Hierarchy

The Forecast feature work just with time dimension that has a hierarrchy with single parent. I would like to have the option to use the leaves hierarchy. As mine would contains yyyy-mm elements. That way, it wouldn't be required to create another ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Reject link on Kafka connector.

We have a requirement to publish message on a Kafka topic from a database and only publish them once. Problem is when using the Kafka connector as target it don't support a reject link. So how do I get a notice if message fails? Kafka Connector se...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: SUBNM formulas do not refresh in Websheets when cells are hidden

Complex Websheets require multiple references and not all have to be visible.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Report- Default sorting for date fields

Today, in report, users have to click on the ascending or descending sort option to sort the date field values.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Close all open books

In PAW the functionality to close all open books is missing. Currently a user has to close one book at a time. A functionality similar to TM1 Web "Close all" and "Close others" is desirable.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration