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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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Add FTPS functionality in FTP Enterprise stage

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

PAW API - access to selector widgets

We would need access to the PAW components and objects using an API in order to:- retrieve the dimension elements and subsets selected in the PAW selector widgets - generate an URL using these parameters- open a CA report inside of PAW When using ...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extension summation of accounts

The summation for accounts is limited to three summations. It would be highly desirable if the summation would be extended up to 5 or 6 summation accounts. The IFRS standard setter plan to introduce a new structure for the profit & loss and th...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

8. Need ability to hide hierarchies PAX + PAW object trees.

Need the ability to hide hierarchies in both the PAW and PAX object trees.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Save As for a TI Processes in PAW?

Today there is the only a save button inside the TI Editing window in PAW. A "Save As" button would be useful.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Capability to modify Colors and Fonts on Login Page of OpenPages

We(implementation partner) have a request from Customer to be able to modify look and feel of the Login Page of OpenPages. System should allow Selection of custom colors and fonts as part of a default theme to conform to organizations branding pol...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Ability to determine which boxes are checked by default when emailing a report

When our users use the "Run in Background" feature in Cognos Analytics to email a report that's in a public folder, they typically email the report as an attachment. Currently when the Delivery method of “Send report by email” is chosen, the "...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, Content Store, Audit Store and Notification Store databases are hosted on a Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance. Authentication mode is Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication for the databases. As of now Cognos Analytics supports on...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Report Output should allow for alternate XML formats

XML output format does not provide for the tag names and cannot be used for import to other applications. Currently, the only option is to export to cvs and then create a program to parse the data. This defeats the purpose of providing XML as a re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration