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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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Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Quick Search should trigger a data refresh

Please refer to case TS014307927 for details. Quick Search on all DMC views does not enforces a new query to either the repository or to the monitored DB. It only searches on pre-loaded data in the browser , which is not a complete set of data. Fo...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

PASS/Websheets: Changing Zero Suppression value should force a REBUILD

Currently when you change the ZeroSupression parameter in a Dynamic Report (TM1RPTROW) it will cause a REFRESH, which is not enough to show/hide empty/non-empty rows. For this you need to manually do a REBUILD. In PAFE changing the ZeroSupression ...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PASS/Websheets: better handling of %-inputs

In a websheet that was formated to "Show empty cell on zero values" (in Excel), currently if you input "20" in an empty cell that was formated as a percentage, the value will then show as "2000%". If there already is a value in that cell (i.e. "30...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Arrangement of Default and Custom Facts

Enables users to rearrange both default and custom facts on both the Model Usecase and Model in Factsheets.

Ability to encrypt when downloading the Fraud Rules list

Rules (fraud rules) are considered confidential and require controls to allow them to be exported (via the download CSV export option) in a secured manor. Create a configuration option to allow rules export to be encrypted. Currently, There is a s...
28 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted