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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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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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Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Coloring values based on a condition

In Dashboards i would like the ability to color values based on a condition. Eg. [Margin]<0.80=Red , 0.81<[Margin]<1 = Yellow , [Margin]>1 = Green. Maybe the feature: Conditional formatiing in Report Studio could be used somehow. This ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 z/OS limitations with ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE

I love the upcoming FL508 and this new availability even though I have not used it. Looking deeper into the Knowledge Center there seems to be some limitations that I would like to see resolved. The two items are: a) Exist in the same data...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration