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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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Add diverging color palettes (especially for use in heatmaps)

Add one ore more diverging color palette for visualization especially in use of heatmaps.(Currently only sequential palettes are in.) Popular choices would be Red-Blue, Blue-Red, Green-Yellow, etc. Here a few examples of palettes
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enable multi-factor authentication for Cognos Controller Cloud

With increased global cyber security activity / threats faced by businesses across the globe, it would be great to enable multi-factor authentication functionality to Cognos Controller Cloud that aligns to the ACS Essential 8 maturity model.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Isolation & elimination of inactive PAW user

In PA workspace local release 29, there is no way to isolate inactive PAW user(s) based on the parameters like last login, count of login in last 6 months etc. Also there is no provision to eliminate user as well.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add multiple Calendars/ Public Holidays on OpenPages

This would be useful as the bank operates in multiple countries, each with their own set of public holidays/bank holidays/religious holidays. This would assist in ensuring that time periods for specific tasks/ reminders are appropriate per country.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Preview function Support for Greenplum in 'default catalog'

PMR feedback: only the following connections in the data preview is supported in default catalog: • Db2 (native and JDBC connections) • Oracle (JDBC connections) • Teradata (JDBC connections Customer ’s data source is Greenplum, which is not on th...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Mechanism to Lock ADMIN users from editing data inadvertently

A mechanism should be in place to Lock data so that members of the ADMIN group cannot inadvertently edit data.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Japanese file path and file name should be supported

This customer is using Linux mainly now. Windows applications and servers are increasing at customer's site. They intend to build mixed(Linux/Windows) cluster. Current Windows users are using Japanese files as execution or input/output file so on....
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Request IIS 11.3.x Client being certified and supported on Windows 10

Our company is moving toward windows 10 platform (from windows 7 currently). We would like request IIS 11.3.x Client being certified and supported on Windows 10.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Browser based Usage of SPSS Modeler

Hi all, it would be great if SPSS Modeler could be provided via Browser and not as a Client Installation. First problem for us is: To maintain all client installations at our company is nearly impossible. We could use Citrix, but the authenticatio...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists