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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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Reload/Reset Workbook

When there is need to show multiple demos in succession it is often required to reload/reset a single workbook only (Refresh Book is not enough). When updating to PAW 2.0.57 the option to Reload Book was lost. When preparing the demos, all sheets ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Improve search function Name - with double spacing

Names with two or more words and double space between them will in not be visible on the screen, one would have to export to Excel to see the extra space. In our case we have a lot of Names similar to each other, and searching for only first or la...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance screen to manage output tables from rules

We are currently using the DB2 Warehouse feature to store output from rules in a new style project. However, this request is not specific to DB2. There is no screen in CP4D which would allow user to manage the output tables that would relate the t...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Do not chart missing values as zero (0)

When graphing a comparison of Budget 12 months vs Actual partial year - using PAW - the partial year series data point will drop to zero for those future periods not completed yet for Actual. In Excel we graph TM1 data comparing 12 month data seri...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide filters in 'Included Content' to limit what is updated in the content store

We use SDK to show the saved outputs in our own application. With Cognos 11, the default output version setting is 1. To allow our clients to see the last 5, we run a job that updates the setting to 5 for all content in the tenant root folder. The...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Information Assets Last Modified Date should be sortable for current dates

Currently in ICP4D MARIA Information Asset screen there is no way of user to filter the published Assets to show the current dates using Last Activity. User has the left panel capability to search on Modified, created by, etc. The easy way to disp...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration