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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.

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

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Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
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Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

Option to view number of jobs running on the platform over the period.

We request this enhancement as there is currently no option to view the number of jobs running on platform over a given period. This feature is available on IBM DS 11.7 Operations Console and is useful for effectively monitoring and managing job c...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Modify import export process Data classes

Modify the import export process for data classes free of XML and support regex or lookup process Sample file to be provided - see attached.
16 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow users to choose the preferred output format in the Cognos Toolbar before the users need to choose the selections on the prompt page and run the report in OpenPages

Users need to wait until the report provides the results in the default format until they can choose the desired format in the Cognos toolbar in OpenPages. For the reports without the prompt pages users can select the format before running the rep...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform)

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform) Client would like to be able to trace the activities related to the execution of an asset. With reference to the Watson Stud...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Configure cube viewer to repeat member names on each row and column

https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/WORKSPACE-16064 Currently stacked cube views in PAW merge element names across the header column. However when combined with specific column alignment, the cube view headers move away from the data set. For the attached ...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow users to choose between "loose" and "tight" display of attributes for rules/terms/categories

Feedback from our pilot group of users is that compared to IGC the screen shows a lot less information at a glance, meaning people have to scroll more. They would prefer a more concise look and feel. When they work on laptops only, I can understan...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review