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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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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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Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Support Kerberos credentials in Data Refinery

Currently as per the most recent versions of Cloud Pak for Data we can't use our connection to Apache Hive on Cloudera 7 because of the fact that we strictly use Kerberos authentication there. We can't use simple passwords. This makes it so that c...
29 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Snapshot from Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel

The ability to snapshot a cube view while working in PA for Excel is no longer available. The only option to go from the viewer to Excel is by exporting to one of the report formats. Although useful in many use cases, this is sometimes not realist...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release
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More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Adding host/ip and port information of the malformated message in the SP log

The hostname and port information of the malformated message shall be added in the Safer Payments logs, in order to allow the user to track the application that sends such message.
14 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Parametric filter in the task view to select in a tab only selected descendent/ascendent records (based on parametric filters)

Supposed you have an Obj Type A (ex ICT resouces) , under you have Obj Type B (ex. ICT Risks), under you have Obj Type C (ex. ICT Controls). You can create a task view of Obj Type B (ex. ICT Risks) and insert a tab with the Obj Type C (ex. ICT Con...
27 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Db2 Developer Extension - Native Stored Procedure (NSP) edit in place, run and deploy from catalog listing

Currently to edit a native stored procedure, you have to make a copy of it and put it in a new file. We would like it to work like Data Studio where you can display the stored procedure in Data Source Explorer, right click and open with routine ed...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
28 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Needs more information