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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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Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple cache states for virtual dynamic cubes

Current design allows two cache states per dynamic cube, ie. to allow reports to be successfully executed, during a member cache refresh. With virtual cube this exposes a errornous situation, when the member cache of both base cubes are refreshed ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Roll-up on Dynamic Cubes when using security

Making Roll-up available when securing a Dynamic Cube
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

alternating colors of rows and columns in report studio crosstab

I want to have an easy way to add alternating colors of rows and columns in a report studio crosstab.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

dynamic sizes for specific reports using non-standard screen scaling in PAW

As we know that when we are using relative layout positioning, we are having some alignment/scaling issues with the interface of our reports in planning analytics workspace. The scaling doesn’t adapt properly to small screens. It is working as exp...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration