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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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OpenPages - Text field - need character count

Generally, all free text fields (should) have a character countdown. Also, from a user experience perspective, when the character limit is reached, a user should not be able to type more Characters; currently it allows the user to keep typing more...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Print Functionality

"Expand All" functionality would help to save "mouse" clicks for print preparation.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Alert users when an updated module or data set is available

Scenario: A user is building a dashboard using the Dashboard tool. At the same time, an updated data module is saved, making the users current data module obsolete. The user doesn't know this, however, and continues building their dashboard. The n...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HADR/TSA/DB2 hang detection feature to have TSA automate a failover during a database hang

Today in HADR failover scenarios we do not detect the database hang on the primary and failover the database to the secondary servers using TSA automation. we need the script needs to accommodate the database hang and failover the database to the ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Create a Cell Security Check Function, similar to CellIsUpdatable, but retuning READ/WRITE/NONE based on the client access.

In our models, we allow users to run TI processes to move data from a generic Staging Cube to the final Planning Cubes. The staging cube accepts free text input as the target dimensions which makes harder to implement security directly on that cub...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Break-In for Mass-delete

Enhance the break-in-process so that it also applies for mass deletes and that these deletes can break in into PWFI-transactions bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration