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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Copy more than 120 elements in the Set Editor

It's not possible to copy more then 120 Elements in Set Editor. Only the currently loaded page is copied, currently 120 members, and is subject to change as we deem fit for performance reasons. We do not copy across pages.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Undo Button in PAfE Cube Viewer

There is no possibility in PAfE Cube Viewer to undo actions like setting filters or drag&drop of dimensions. In PAW there is this option available.
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release
507 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow the user to filter using custom fields on the search screen

Custom fields are very useful for adding information to data assets in a structured way that adapts well to the particular structure of companies. Because of this, we believe that being able to filter assets and information by these fields is some...
19 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to Schedule calculations

Scheduling calculations in combination with auto advance feature would open doors for a plethora of use cases.
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Data exported should be restricted to the Form selected for both Reported Values & Journals

When exporting data via Transfer>Export Data, we can restrict accounts for the data exported for Reported Values via the selected Form. However the accounts are not restricted for any Manual Journals. In our scenario, we are exporting from a da...
26 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add Close button in PAfE/set editor window

The set editor window in PAfE is closed by pressing the "X" on top-right corner, while in PAW there is a "Close" button on the bottom - left area of the window. To increase the processing speed and ensure coherence it would be preferred to have al...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information