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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Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
28 days ago in Planning Analytics 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

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

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

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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 ...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

PAW column widths

The column widths should reflect the size of the contents - or at least have a toggle to ask for it. Currently, small values or big values, the column width is fixed and needs to be set upfront. How do we know whether the user requests aggregated,...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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