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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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Include "Always create extended data items" option in CA11

In Cognos 10.2.2 - When authoring report based on TM1/Planning Analytics Cube – we have the "Extended Data Item" option disabled in the Report Studio options (Tools menu) so our users are able to edit data item items which you drag into new report...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort Column on Packages in Data Modules (Month Name)

Currently relational Framework packages are not able to sort Month Name by date. This creates dashboarding problems for users trying to do ad-hoc analysis on governed data.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run report by default instead of showing saved output

In Cognos Analytics we often encounter the situation where there is a saved output for a report that gets displayed instead of runnning the report. Users who are not savvy do not realize this is happening and they end up using very old output thin...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Apply Date numeric data formatting in framework model in dashboards

See case TS000115108 Improved control of numeric data formatting in dashboards A framework model with informix database and date column formatted to the format dd/MM/yyyy not being honored in dashboards. It appears like 01-01-1900 According to the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to rename data modules and update links

We would like the ability to rename data modules in CA. We have the ability to swap out the modules, but cannot edit the name.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orchestrating the processes of IBM Engineering Life cycle Management - ELM and IBM Sterling based on IBM Watsonx infrastructure

This idea is feasible because now we are in the Agentic Artificial Intelligence, we need to enable IBM Watsonx.ai and IBM Watsonx.data and IBM Watsonx.governance to satisfy the following needs: 1- Using Watsonx is better in its capabilities to ach...
8 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orchestrating the IBM Solutions including IBM Envizi ESG, IBM Environmental Intelligence, IBM Maximo EAM, and IBM Tririga

This idea is feasible because now we are in the Agentic Artificial Intelligence, we need to enable IBM Watsonx.ai and IBM Watsonx.data and IBM Watsonx.governance to satisfy the following needs: 1- Using Watsonx is better in its capabilities to ach...
8 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration