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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Options for Trend/Baselines to Rave 2 Visualizations

Cognos Charts have multiple options for adding trend/baselines/target lines to Visualizations. The new Visualizations do not have this feature.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Convert From Dashboard To Report

Would like the ability to take an existing "Dashboard" and convert it to a "Report".
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release