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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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Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

User Access in Application not auto refreshed in Architect basis CAM security

Hello Team, We are using Planning Analytics version 2.0.9.14 and using CAPA (Cognos Analytics for Planning Analytics) for user authentication, Active Directory integration and the Cognos groups are used for managing the user access to the TM1 appl...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DR Capability for DMC

Hello, We would like to have DR capability for DMC. So that, it would be helpful for us to monitor the DBs when there is a full or partial site failure.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Grid view/ dashboard filters

Every user has to set up their own dashboards which is time consuming. If we can share/copy others filters, this would enable users to create dashboards much quicker.
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

11.1 Visualizations in report studio (bars) need custom sorting

11.1 visuals in report studio need custom sorting and/or TO MATCH DASHBOARDING functionality at the very least. Cannot sort by highest to lowest value. cannot sort by other columns in query
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

WKC - Multi select option in connected Asset Import in the catalog view

If we add connected assets to a catalog we can only select one asset and have to provide a name for that asset. Usually we import hundreds of tables and this seems quite painful. We would prefer a experience where we can select multiple tables, fi...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

WKC - -support the concept of group to assign roles

Currently only single user can be authorized in CPD. As with WKC many user may access the platform and have to be administered. Synchronizing groups from LDAP and assigning roles to a group wil be requested.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists