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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

OpenPages Integration with Azure AD

We are seeing more customers moving to Cloud services, and one of the services getting adopted more frequently is Azure AD. Neither OpenPages nor SDI contain connectors for Azure AD. Can you please extend the product to provide capabiliy to Integr...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Not under consideration

Provide a documented and supported procedure to generate ddl (db2look as SP - like db2lk_generate_ddl)

db2lk_generate_ddl is a stored procedure that provides functionality to generate DDL via SQL (similar to db2look which is a tool as db2llok cannot be executed througha SQL client tool. This function already exists but is not documented and I am no...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

Add user from Active Directory in PAW

Comparable to adding users in Perspectives (Server > Security > Clients/Groups ... > Add new client) the function to add a user from the Active Directory is currently missing.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Allow developers to set the column width for Cube views in PAW and disregard members as the context.

The general issue can be seen at this link https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=3067&MessageKey=34afee39-b281-43ab-93f0-83b1d9e81797&CommunityKey=8fde0600-e22...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

TM1 Web/PASS calculation behavior/user experience

For current TM1 Web behavior, users still need to click Recalculate to commit the changes to TM1 after input value then able to get calculated cells refreshed/recalculated along with this action. But this is quite different from MS Excel behavior/...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration