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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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Function to add "+" at the beginning if the value is a positive number.

Currently, there is a function to add "-" at the beginning for negative numbers. Similarly, we need the ability to add a "+" at the beginning. Example) 5% → + 5%
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable/Disable Action Buttons in Excel Exports

Exports to Excel of Websheets with Action Buttons from PAW and PASS still contain action buttons. Most of the end users do not have any Excel Addin (PAFE, Perspectives) installed. The buttons have no function in the Excel Export File , are mislead...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Workflow: Extending the concept of auto start to also encompass auto-transition from one stage to another

In a similar way to auto-start, there will be instances where we would want the workflow to move onto another stage when the conditions and validations are met, without the user having to do this. Examples: - If using the Custom API to creat...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Logout Redirect

Would like to get logour re-direct capbilites working. We have tried to implement via system.xml as specified in the following url http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21650433 for version 10... but does not seem to work in 11
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add and drop include columns to/from unique index as a pending change

To accomplish high availability for schema changes in a 24/7 environment, an addition of an Include Column to a unique index should be implemented as a pending change that is materialized by an online REORG. Dropping an include column from a uniqu...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provi...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Dimensions in columns in Trial Balance

Customers works more and more with extended dimensions. They have a strong wish and need to select to see dimensions in columns in the same way that you can select to see companies in columns.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Rolling Log daily for GNM Distributed Search

To allow rolling log daily
11 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Not under consideration