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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Data Set refresh though batch job

Data sets are having scheduleing properties to get refresh, However instead of defining individual data set refresh schedule it would be much helpful if we can use cognos jobs to include multiple data sets in a single batch and schedule refresh.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow for Views in the TFUI to have Rules that include Groups not just Profiles

The rules on Views like Gridviews are very simplistic, by allowing admins to give subsections of a profile different views by using GROUPS, it significantly improves the usability of the GridView. -OR- Allow for a drop-down selection for a user to...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Show Process Errors to Non-Admin Users

Logged in as a non-admin user, I run a process which produces minor errors such as: element not found in dimension ItemReject('Message') Missing parameter ODBC connection error but the system doesn't show the errors in the popup window. Only as ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enable to modify the timeout of remote desktop

TimeLine after an idle session for admin to change.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Utility for Masking of data for sharing of the TM1 instance

As of now data masking is not available for data in transit or at rest. Utility for Masking of data for sharing of the TM1 instance
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration