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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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CAPTCHA mechanism

A captcha mechanism should be implemented in all forms.It is recommended the CAPTCHAs to be validated on the server side. It is necessary to ensure that the CAPTCHA is valid for a single use and is invalidated after its use.Also, the following con...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New TI Datasource - json/xml/Web Service

Nowadays many applications are exporting data via web service (format could be json or xml), Planning Analytics has no options out of the box to support these type of data sources. At the moment, either using TM1py, or get some developer to write ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

License auditing process/utility for PA Workspace & PA for Excel.

At this time, it is not possible to clearly track which user accesses the TM1 data models from PA Workspace(local release 29) & PA for Excel. Due to unavailability of any defined method/procedure, it's unmanageable to audit the count of users(...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting in Visualization

PAW gives the ability to create a conditional format rule in a cube view such as "highlight revenue red if below 100", but this rule won’t hold if the cube view is switched to a visualization. I am looking for an option to have a column chart wher...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

z/OS Batch interface to omegamon

There should be an interface that allows the user to take specific actions via a z/OS job and capture the screen results in a z/OS dataset. This will allow a user to create a standard job to take any action they routinely execute and capture the r...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

In grid view user can not filter top 100 or 200 record (for a field value or a date filed)

In object type with a lot of records, it's possibile to create personal and public filters BUT it's not possibile to filter a number or records (example top 100, top 200) order by a value (loss value or by a date (for example creation date or last...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration