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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,

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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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'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Show proper line numeration in TI process editor

Since our last upgrade of PAW (version 2.0.94) the numeration of lines of TI-process is not working properly, when at the end of the section (e.g. prolog) comments (#) are added. Those rows will not be counted, as they would not belong to the proc...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Want the ability to mass replace Custom attribute at an asset level.

Ability to find and replace custom attribute. For example when a Data Steward leaves the company we need the ability to find the Data Steward: Custom attribute with the current name and replace it with the name of the new Data Steward.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Data Move Wizard

Provide a capability that will allow users to move objects and children objects from one business entity to another without needing to move each object individually.Users will have the ability to :o Filter for objects to moveo Select one or many p...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Not under consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
9 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Regular expressions in calculated fields

For some raw-data fields like res_req or effective_res_req in the job_acct index, it is right now not possible to extract single parameters like the mem-parameter in the rusage section. This could be achieved by supporting regular expressions (reg...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Planned for future release