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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Cube Viewer Fill Color for the header area

Client would like to be able to change the background/fill color of the cube viewer header in a dashboard. In Workspace v89, there are properties to change the fill color of the dashboard background across all tabs, and for the cube viewer object ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

Add option to capture and reuse (save) the filter selections in dashboards

Hello, we have built dashboards for users so that they can execute them (not a self service authoring of dashbaords but managed dashbaords. The users execute these dashboards and first need to select data perimeter in the filter area in the top wh...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Display of Data Labels alongside location names on MAP Visualizations

System: MAP Visualization in Cognos AnalyticsActor: Plotting Measurable quantities on Maps alongside Location When we see a MAP Visualization on a REPORT or DASHBOARD module in Cognos Analytics, we see the Color variances, the Location Accuracies,...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 2 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Optim not able to see these nested tables and the parent table

The nested tables are going to be in the same realm as complex nested view where Optim currently is not robust enough to access the correct meta data for them.
7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Using numerical attribute from Planning Analytcis within Cognos Analytics

TS000103720When using a Planning Analytics cube as a data source, numerical Attributes with the value of 0 are not visible in reports.Therefore, for the numeric value 0, there are no possibilities to filter or set a default value for any prompt it...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration