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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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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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View Mode dashboard, allow changing of top or bottom #

When a user has a dashboard open in view mode, allow them to change the top/bottom function and #
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Allow for Multiple Group and Role Assignments in a Single API Call

Our implementation of OpenPages requires users to be listed in several groups and to have multiple direct role assignments allocated. We use an IAM system which via the REST API adds and removes users and their access. With one user request we nee...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 9 Delivered

Sort and Cascade Filters in Dashboards

It would be great if we can treat the top filters for dashboards as data items that we can sort on, filter to display values of interest and cascade.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Delivered

Integration between WKC and Cognos

The more customers work on the idea of the "Ladder to AI", the more integration between all steps is needed. When defining Metadata and Governance in WKC, using the assets in Watson Studio, DataStage and other components, Cognos should be taken in...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Scheduled Content Execution Failure Notification

We have 1000+ scheduled content and 50 - 75% of scheduled content fail for various reasons. Many of our users have a set it and forget it mentality and never log back in to resolve the root cause of the scheduled report execution failure. Instead ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

LOAD a TABLE with WHEN / DISCARD

When loading a table with WHEN and DISCARD, rows that do not qualify because of the WHEN condition get "discarded" and:- discard file is populated with them- it is impossible to distinguish records discarded because of the WHEN clause and e.g. the...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Running one page of report in pdf during development

In cognos reporting, the customer wants to run a page in pdf without executing the entire report.It can be done in html but not in pdf.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Applying Security - Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Expose Report View Descriptions

The new UI doesn’t surface descriptions for Report Views.  If I go to properties the description is populated with the description from the source report but it doesn’t show in this tile (or list) view.  It would be nice if it would show...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Delivered

While the remote replication is active, there is a database-level lock

Hello, this is Hakan from Garanti Bank. We have been using the cdc very long time. Lately, we tried the remote replication method to reduce the mainframe cpu cost. It was running perfect; however, there existed never-ending db locks. Supposing tab...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered