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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.

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Separate app install folders for Cognos for Microsoft Office and PAx tools - TS001084642

In the current state, the installation scripts are combined for Cognos for Microsoft Office v. 11.0 and for Planning Analytics v. 2.0.2 into one zip file Both tools are installed together at the same time and in the same client folder. Attempting ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Questionnaire - Delete comments

It is currently impossible to delete comments in the Questionnaire App (IBM OpenPages GRC Platform v7.3.0: User Guide, page 92).Please allow for the assignees to delete their own comments before they submit the questionnaire.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Delivered

Add direct feedback function for tools

When planning an implementing of a use case, the first validation step is commonly to look through the Apps and available tools in the tool catalog, e.g. "are there tools for this 3rd party application?". Later, when actually implementing it, it m...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Functionality already exists

Builder to be able to control the list/table display in tool outputs

Typically 3rd party app data model have a lot of data points when only a subset of those are relevant in a given context for a given persona / workflow. Also only a subset can be displayed to make a decent UX (especially on mobiles). So we need bu...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

For tables w/ columns that are generated by default, update the internal sequence with the next value for the column

When using Qrep for DR , we have to make the target table which has generated numeric values to be generated by default. That is understood. In a DR scenario, when we fail over from the A to the B side, we have to run a script that gets the max va...

Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Custom Error Message on Login Page

Ability to show custom error messages on login page without having to use SDK. We have application which has link to redirect to cognos page. More than 500 clients use this app. SSO is implemented. User information is stored in Active directory. ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

License service to monitor cplex usage is not able to run on tainted nodes on Kubernetes

Production usage on Kubernetes usually make usage of dedicated resources (nodes) to run applications. Monitoring tools for example, can be isolated on dedicated (tainted) nodes so they cannot be altered by apps malfunctions like Out of memory.
almost 3 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration