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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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De-couple view window from Excel-sheet

When one opens a view in PAfE, it stays in the front, even when one clicks beside into an Excel cell. One has to minimize the window actively to pull the Excel-sheet to the front. The normal Windows behavior for overlapping windows is, that the on...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Copy or Move sheets from one PAW book to another

There is no option to copy or move a sheet from one PAW book to another. While this can be achieved by pinning every object on the sheet, this is time-consuming. This is particularly useful for a client with several applications designed for diffe...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Support SCOPE PENDING on REORG INDEX

With Db2 13 FL506 LOAD partition clearing and NOKEYDELETE, NPIs are left in a pending state that needs to be resolved by a REQRG INDEX. Users will have to find there NPI indexes and submit the REORGs for them. With SCOPE PENDING support in REORG I...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

"Writeback mode" in Excel Ribbon

Give more feedback (or make it non-persistent) if writeback mode in PAfE is set to value mode: If a user accidentally switches this, all TM1 sheets won’t write anything back to the cubes, and this setting is persistent. Unfortunately there is no m...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable Workspace user preferences in PAfE

Make available members deselection persistent: Many users prefer to have available members being turned off in the PAfE subset editor. But each time the editor is being opened, the deselection has to be made again. If PAfE (same as in PAW) could r...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support and Certify Oracle SE on RDS for MDM SE

To certify the usage of Oracle Standard Edition on AWS RDS for MDM SE. Currently only MDM EE RDS is certified for usage with MDM
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted