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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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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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Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Drop partition in UTS PBR RPN tablespaces

Dropping partitions in a tablespaces can only be done by dropping and re-creating the entire tablespace In earlier versions of DB2 for z/OS you could not add partition to an existing tablespace. Consequently we created about 60 tablespaces with 25...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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

Security Rest API to Fetch User Details missing key information

/grc/api/security/users/OpenPagesAdministrator/roles lists all the roles assigned to user on the business entity as follows { "roleName": "IAM - All Data - Limited Admin", "objectTypeName": "SOXBusEntity", "id": "1", "role": "39", "folder": "/_op_...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

improve MDX performance in TI

Dear Sirs, we wanted to check the performance in v12 concerning MDX and ElComp-function concerning one dimension. In v11 the performance with ElComp was much better, we thought that with v12 the performance concerning MDX will be improved, however...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Under review

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboard Tool for Cubes (Dimensional Data Source) add option for Members Only view in insertable objects pane

Make it easier to use our existing cubes (dimensional data) in Dashboard tool to only see the Members Only view in the insertable objects. This option is available in the reporting tool. Right now not having this view makes the dashboard too cumbe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

11.2 alter home page to Team Content Globally

There is a desire by customers to alter the home page for all users to be the Team Content page in 11.2. However, they can only alter to a report or dashboard. The user individually can alter, so the capability is there, it just needs to be exposed.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration