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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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OpenPages - Automatic Profile Switching based on ObjectType

Hi, many of our users have different profiles for our different modules. When they are accessing a task directly (via email link) they often receive an error message that their current profile does not allow access to this object type. Especially ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Add Transaction Application lock types to the DBMS_LOCK package

We understand that there is an implementation of a version of the Oracle DBMS_LOCK package (minus transaction type and various modes) available on Db2 for LUW. While we can make some use of the session application lock type, we also have a need fo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PAW report URL - possibility to assign alias (instead of using URL)

Deploy a PAW report to production environment without changing the URL of the report? Background: Updates of reports that are created with design features are saved as Chrome favorites by many end users. Deploying the changes with import functiona...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance capabilities for welcome page customization

Currently the themes allow a few cosmetic properties to be updated while customizing the welcome page for Cognos Analytics. I was looking to be able to customize the navbarpushbuttonforeground color property but it does not exist, only the navbarp...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the default source view of cubes

We'd like to be able to set the default source view of cubes in Report Studio. Currently, Member Tree view is the default source view in Analysis Studio. Similarly, we would like to have the default source view of 'show members only for dimensiona...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration