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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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OP 8.0 - Option to hide values in task focused UI

Within the new task focused UI it is not possible to hide obsolete or unwanted string values from a list of enumerated string values if added to a chartType (doughnut, bar, pie, horizontal). Even when the enumerated string value is set to "Hidden"...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Is a defect

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters. H...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

DISPLAY UTILITY Enhancement

Add more granularity to the DISPLAY UTILITY command by added a STATUS filter. We may have a hundred utilities running at once, I would like to be able to pull up just the STOPPED ones.
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

% not displayed correctly on Graph axis

When data has been formatted as percentage in element format, it should appear as a percentage on the axis of the graph. eg 90% versus 0.9 Support Desk Problem description:PA2.0.2 with PAW 23Number with a percentage (eg: 4%) doesn't show correct f...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable grouping on categories (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization

Enable grouping on bars (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization. When working with visualizations within Dashboard in CA 11.0.7, one requires the ability to expose grouping capabilities along X-Axis categories (or in CA 11.0.7,...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Users can't see the QUEUE numbers.

Display the QUEUE number on the screen before the report is executed. This allows users to see QUEUE and know the crowded conditions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration