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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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Applications or plans should be able to reference a particular page in a PAW book

When adding an asset to an application or plan, there is no ability to select an individual tab in a book. The default behavior is to select the first tab in the book. Often books have multiple tabs in them, and these may be used in different appl...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

gnerate alert when report output is not created on file system

When a scheduled job or interactive report is ran and the output is set to file system if the output is not generated or written to the file system there is no notification or alert of an issue.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, t...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from.A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

· Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly

Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Incremental backup of LOBS

Incremental backup of db2 should do INCREMENTAL backup of Large Objects (Blobs, Clobs etc). I am referencing this two limitations: 1. If a table space contains long field or large object data and an incremental backup is taken, all of the long fie...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Improve the custom banner feature

Consider this scenario... There is a problem with the daily loads or I have developed a cool new report and I want to notify all cognos users of this. The Cognos banner might be a great way to do just that... But my Cognos environment is managed &...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

COPY UTILITY ENCHANTMENT

We would like the the COPY UTILITY will have an option to COPY CATALOG and it will know to backup and copy the catalog and directory objects ,every migration or catalog level , the order might be changed and a System DBA who is responsible for the...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration