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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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PAfE - Support of high resolution display (4K)

PAfE is not able to scale the size of objects like the cube viewer or the task pane when you use high resolution screens (4K), so they appear really small. I think that issue will happen to more and more users now, because many new laptops from De...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose the Change of Field Properties like (Sort,Usage) for FM Package as Source for Cognos Analytics Dashboard

We are Currently Using IBM Cognos Analytics 11-R10 in our environment, For Dashboard Development we are using FM-DQM Package as source and we are facing issue in changing the query item properties for example : changing the sort options, aggregate...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
9 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

File Attachment Versions history should only show versions with updated file attachments

When a user adds a file attachment, the File Attachment task view shows the Versions table. However, when the user updates only a field value such as "Abstract" or "Description", and clicks Save, a new entry in the Versions table appears, which ma...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Allow Objects to be excluded from Reporting Periods

Reporting Periods are extremely useful for a variety of use cases. Currently when a reporting period is created, all data in OpenPages is duplicated. Some data in OpenPages does not need to be included in reporting periods, so it would be great to...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives

Modify HDR code to add a state whereby the secondary server can be allowed to perform ontape and onbar archives. Whether the server can remain in secondary mode or must be changed to an intermediary mode are both acceptable options, as long as the...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration