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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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Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Implementation SPSS Modeler's new visualization feature "View Data" as a node.

SPSS Modeler stores the various operations in a stream, making it very easy to run the same operation over and over, or to run the same operation on different data. Because View Data is not implemented as a node, the configuration is not stored in...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Sort governance artifacts by all existent columns

Sort governance artifacts (data classes, business terms, etc.) by all existent columns (not only by "Name" and "Last modified").
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Suppression of validation check messages

Need the ability to suppress validation checks and only display custom validation messages in production environments. Currently when a validation fails all validation check messages are displayed on the screen as well as the custom validation mes...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Toggle to set Username login as non-case sensitive

We notice that the OpenPages login is case sensitive. e.g. (iwong10). If we were to enter say "IWong10" the username fails as on the user management console, we place the username of my account is "iwong10". Is there are way to update configuratio...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
9 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release