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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.

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.

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Add ability to set which folder file uploads are added to

Action buttons within PAW Book allow users the ability to "Allow file upload" when running a process which will prompt the user for a file to upload prior to running the process. At the moment this file is uploaded to the .\model_upload folder. Re...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Scan openManta extension csv files from Git

There are several cases when external programs want to send lineage to Manta because Manta does not support a particular feature. For example, Manta doesnt support PROC EXPORT in sas, that connects a file to a sas program. Users can write external...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Data validation in a skill when data source is a list uploaded from excel/csv

We would like to see an data validation option provided for a list data uploaded through an excel file. Following are the possible validations that could warn user when an incorrect is being uploaded Validation during file upload: A skill should...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

TM1 Web - upload PDF files

We have some PDF Documents to be published in TM1 Web (Web Interface used by our users). TM1 Web currently does not support downloading these files, and there is no feature in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) to upload PDF files. I would like o...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customizing Cognos files / Customized PODs

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** In Cognos Analytics on-prem customization of files in the Cognos Analytics install directory, e.g....
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration