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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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Improve drill through security

A customer was using SQL/ODBC drill through that showed sensitive data in some cells and "general" data on some other cells. Drill through could not be secured by dimension elements so we had to develop complex setup to check if user has access to...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow non-https URLs in dashboard

Cant add an http URL in the dashboard only https. This prevents adding intranet URLs and also known safe http sites
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAx Viewer should have option to save View

The Viewer in PAx has no option to save a view(private or public) One has to export to exploration to save a view there instead. This two step process to save a view is silly
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Workflow: Extending the concept of auto start to also encompass auto-transition from one stage to another

In a similar way to auto-start, there will be instances where we would want the workflow to move onto another stage when the conditions and validations are met, without the user having to do this. Examples: - If using the Custom API to create o...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Add support for Alma Linux

Our ask is for IBM support for Alma Linux as the underlying OS for CDC replication.
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Please log the number of bwaits processed per minute in "badmin perfmon view" and the current number of bwait's queued in "badmin show status"

Currently, we can see the number of total bwaits that have gone into the system since we have command debug logging enabled, but we have no easy way to know how many wait's are queued up or what the throughput of bwait commands are. We would use t...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration