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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Salesforce two factor (2F) authentication

IBM/Cognos doesn't currently connect to Salesforce when using two factor (2F) authentication. Support checked with development folks and unfortunately at this moment CA is unable to handle any 2F authentication - be it portal access or in datasour...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages Lifecycle Notification should have validation for active/inactive users before sending mail notification.

It is useful because the inactive users mail box wont be flooded from Notification when the status of the incident or issue object changes. At present the end user gets confused with the intention of the mail because being inactive, he/she no more...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Not under consideration

32k limit creating Data Group in Data Module

There is a 32k limit on number of items shown when creating Data Group in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Module. The limitation also includes the ability to search items outside the first 32k. So basically, if you have a data source with more than 3200...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable/enable application/navigation bar in cognos portal

We would like to have an option to enable/disable the cognos analytics navigation/application bards in the interface. For example by adding the check box option for navigation bar & application bar lines in manage > accounts > cognos rol...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Report Studio: Combining report views with "Report reference" page doesn't provide correct results

(Concerns Report studio page explorer) I am contacting you as we are facing issues when combining report views. We are using the new 10.2.1 functionnality that allows to reference report views in a report to combine them in the execution to have o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Save to the file system" Feature for Cognos 11 Portal

Currently the Cognos 10 view in Cognos 11 has the "Save to the file system" capability when scheduling the report. I would to get his added in the normal Cognos 11 portal .
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add functions

Add this functions to the calc: Regular expressions (match pattern, random generation) Add days, months, years to a date.
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 Future consideration

OPTIMIZER IGNORE INDEX indexcreator.indexname

Looking to replace NPI with DPSI. DSPI is created, and would like to verify that all SQLs that were using NPI, when Rebound/executed dynamically would either a) use either newly created DPSI or another index on the table and b) have run time perfo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Customization of Drill-through cube view in Planning Analytics Workspace

Currently when you create drill-through process and use it in PAW books opened drill-through cube view isnt customizable and its using the default classic cube viewer (not the new one). Is it possible to add new enhanced features to enable the Mod...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration