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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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Change a package associated to a report

In 10.2.2 and before, you could click on the report properties and update the package a report points to. In Cognos 11, it appears you cannot do that, unless you load the classic view (Cognos Connection). This makes moving or copying multiple item...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Word wrap in Cube View in PAW

Our client wants to use comments in data cells and present them to their stockholders from PAW. Unfortunately, they are unable to show long comments in full length - and this issue prevents them from using PAW dashboards for their presentation. I'...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Can't bring existing objects into workflows

We can see how to remove objects from workflows, but there is no way to bring existing objects into their correct workflow in bulk. This is critical to us adopting workflows, because when a user sees a list of tasks they must complete, we must ens...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

WKC - Metadata Import of Cognos Assets should also include calculations and expressions performed in Cognos

Currently just the data flow through the imported Cognos artifacts is visible in Information Asset View and Data Lineage. As there is also business logic and KPI calculation in Cognos this information is also important for the Business User analyz...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Ability to migrate/export "Applications" and "Plans" in lifecycle management

Should be able to select Applications and Plans as objects to export or migrate in Planning Analytics Workspace - Lifecycle Management. Currently you can only export books and views.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Support for asynchronous views in PAW and PAx

Support for creating asynchronous views in PAW and PAx when nesting dimensions. E.g. with two dimensions in columns "Year" and "Version" the ability to show Version:Actual/Year:2016 in column one end Version:Budget/Year:2016,2017 in column two and...
almost 9 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

SQL Data Insights - APIs for model retraining plus all other maintenance tasks available via UI today

Most enterprise customers do not use UIs at all outside of test systems, all production work has to be automated and scripted. SQL Data Insights requires the retraining of a model in case the data in the underlying table or view changed. So retrai...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Unable to update axis titles on dashboards

Unable to edit or transform axis titles on dashboard. Need to be able to change axis titles and allow for the ability to define the look of the axis labels. Can't define horizontal vs vertical vs 45 degree angle. Best viewing of axis labels change...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Export to Excel multiple objects when in Grid View

OpenPages 7: I've created a Grid View for Process object that also shows Risks and Controls. I want the ability to 'Export to Excel' in this example all 3 objects represented in the Grid view, so Process/Risk/Control.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

View/Edit Workspace calculations

When you have created a calculation in PAW there is no way to view or edit the calculation. Most important is to be able to view the calculation, but it would be great if it would be possible to edit it as well.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered