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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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Allow IET to be locked by period

Currently there is no allowance in security to lock IET against changes, including past IET periods. Coupled with no audit log capability to track, there would be no clue as to what was changed. This will affect prior periods if consolidation was ...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

DMC Needs to update DB2 Version that is reported after a DB2 upgrade/patch is applied

DMC is not picking-up and reporting the upgraded version of DB2 after applying a patch. It continues to report the version upon initial connection setup. A manual reconnect of each database connection in DMC will update the level reported; however...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Double-click options for dimensions and sets in PAx

Double clicking on the dimension name should open up the default set in the set editor. Right clicking on a dimension name should offer an option to open the default set in the set editor. Double clicking on a named set should open up that set in ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Require SAP Business Warehouse functionality

This was/is a feature in 11.7 and is not yet in Datastage Cartridge/NextGen. Needed for customer work.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Allow calculated fields to be editable

Hi Team, We are moving triggers to calculations and we have triggers that set the fields and still allows the users to update it. WE need calculated fields to be editable to work on this migration. Raising this RFE to allow calculated fields to be...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Support public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) managed database services for content/audit stores

Currently, if we opt to use one of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) to host Cognos Analytics Local, we are required to provision a self-managed database host and database in order to host the Cognos Analytics content stores. This limits ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Option to select "OpSystem" user in Applicability conditions on workflow

Option to select "OpSystem" user in Applicability conditions on workflow. IN cascading workflow on the same object Sample Workflow A is calling Workflow B, I dont want user to See workflow B in action, However Currently I do not have option to hid...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Task View Freeze Header

Openpages Task Focus UI should have capability to freeze the header panel for task views while scrolling vertically, all the 3 fields added on this panel should be freezed and visible on the whole view. This will be very helpful for end users.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration