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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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Updated field (black) asterisk is causing confusion with mandatory field (red asterisk)

Users are familiar with red asterisk = mandatory field. When they see the new black asterisk, they are confusing it with the red mandatory asterisk. Consider whether there is another symbol that could be used that does not cause this confusion
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Add ability to configure the set that is initially displayed on the left pane of PAx set editor

Would like the ability to chose which set is displayed when launching the set editor. This configuration should be able to be set for each dimension, and should persist when the set editor is launch from any environment (Cube views, Explorations, ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Export data from Dashboard Visualization data area

Being able to see the data used to generate a visualization in the Visualization Data area is nice. However, when debugging a visualization it would be nice to export that data to Excel to examine the data more easily.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Specify a Check Constraint Through Alter Panels

There is currently no option to be able to specify a list of accepted values for a column on a table through the Alter panels.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Data Studio

Trying to implement Vanguard tokenless two factor authentication on IBM mainframe. When the userid and password are entered; Vanguard sends a RACF passticket via email or text message. The 8 byte passticket is entered in the 'New Password' field t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Setting permissions in Cognos Analytics with matrix like in Cognos 10

When setting permissions in Cognos Anlytics (e.g. on folders), the interface is not very userfriendly:- permissions can't be set for more than one group, if no standard permission (i.e. read, write) is used- permissions are not displayed at a glan...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to add String values in color field on RAVE2 Maps issue in Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 (TS001153285)

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 Report Studio RAVE 2 Maps , we have a requirement to locate geographical data on a map and to identify them by different size and categories. We understand that Cognos 11 (RAVE Tiled Map) has the capability to support t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Non-disruptive add column not null with no default

Currently, the conversion of a new NOT NULL column without default at the end of a table is done via an UNLOAD / DROP / CREATE / LOAD A content (default) is generated for the column during the unload in order to be able to load this column afterwa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered