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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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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.

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Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Workflow system fields

Ability to capture the stage name from the action going into that stage into an object field such that this can be made available to the user/reporting for understanding the current position in the workflow. The current system fields are transitor...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Association Grid Enhancement

When an association grid is configured on a task view. E.g. the Associated Controls Grid that appears on a Risk Task View. When user clicks "Associate Control" button to associate an existing control to the Risk they are viewing, would be nice to ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Ability to sort objects by type

In previous version of Cognos when viewing the continence of a folder could be sorted by type, so all packages would appear together, then by name. In Cognos Analytics all object are sorted alphabetically by name, or by modified date, regardless o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Using case attributes as quereies

The client has a requirement to see exactly case related transactions under the case when we use a calendar profile. For example; (1month calendar - txns amount > 1000 and sent to Turkey).. We can put a query with the same conditions and I can ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Automated Re-creation of Select-Star Views

If a view is created by using a 'SELECT *' statement, the view is not updated when a new column is added to the base table. An example: create table dm_tab(N integer, M integer) organize by row; insert into dm_tab(N, M) values (1, 2); create view ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Email text template

Often reports are sent from Cognos via email to the receipients. As the reports owner, we take care in adding a relevant text to the email, such as our company's official logo, address, etc. Currently, whenever a change to the standard email text...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically

I want to name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically. The use case is that I have a tab which shows current year data, one for 5 year data and one for 10 year data. I can name them in line with that but it would be better if they were named 2020, ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Planned for future release