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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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Lock/ready-mark a subgroup

When using company status you ready mark a company (for a specific closing version, defined in the general configuration settings). However, other journal types than the ones included in that closing version is still open. In the next stage of rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Workflow in Controller Web - Submit

After submitting a submission in Controller Web, you get the following alternatives regarding where you want to go next: Back to overview Back to projects Cancel The best alternative for a logical workflow, would be to be able to select "Start rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

PAX - Show attributes in exploration view

The exploration view is the most common way to show a cube view in Excel. However, it is not possible to display attributes of the dimensions which in my opinion is a big restriction because it will force us to use a DBRA function, but it is not e...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Improving filter when defining Add, Copy Recursive, or Set Primary Parent actions in a Task View

When defining Add , Copy Recursive , or Set Primary Parent actions in a Task View, administrators can filter records for these actions, but we need to improve this filter , not only compare value (equal) bul also equal/not equal to a specific valu...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Calculation list filtering by object type and/or state (as views)

If you have plenty calculations it's not easy to select only the ones applied to a specific object type, you need to scrool different pages. (the order by column, works only for a single page!). We'd like a filter like the one you implement for th...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Locked record could be easy identify and selected/escluded

Now when a user lock a record, the locked record are visible but can not be easy selected by a filter .... let access to a field to identify locked record in order to filter, export, report them
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Scroll bar synchronization

Could we please extend the synchronization capability for scroll bars as well in Workbench? Currently we can place multiple widgets in the same tab within WOrkbench. I like this feature as it helps in keeping all things relevant in same tab and wo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

WKC - Metadata Crawler to import lineage Information for standalone DataStage installation

WKC in CPD can not display operational lineage for DataStage implementations in a remote environment. We will request the option to extract/crawl lineage relevant information that can be easily automated integrated in WKC without exporting from Da...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Rerun Failed Reports

Every once in a while we have a database down when scheduled reports are set to be run. When this happens we have to re-run the scheduled reports. Currently the process is to filter on past report schedule history, select failed reports. Open the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration