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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Setting for rows to buffer in Planning Analytics Workspace

When editing dimensions or browsing data via Planning Analytics Workspace, the grid continously loads to rows when scrolling down. This creates a very poor user experience and the idea is to make it possible to control the amount of rows/cells tha...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable TM1 Cube as a data source in Cognos Analytics Dashboard Creation

It would be great, if you enable TM1 Cube to be used as a data source for developing Cognos Dashboard in Cognos Analytics (v11).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC replicate to Azure Datalake on parquet format

We need to move online data from our IBM i to Azure Datalake, we have DataStage but it's not online.
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate Housekeeping for \temp and \data

Currently it is awkward to clean up \temp and \data. Only the product knows which files are in actual use.If you had process crashes during report executions and or of the product itself temporary files might not be properly removed during a resta...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration