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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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Centrally manage hiding databases users don't have access to

Whilst you can hide databases in PAW and PAfE, they do appear to be separate solutions and not joined up. - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=wnim2-hide-databases-in-preferences - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analy...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Minor edits should not trigger a workflow

Any workflow adds work. Not all modifications are of equal importance, some the user should be able to do alone. It would be good to be able to define attributes which can be considered of minor importance and those would be just auto-published. O...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Copy or Move sheets from one PAW book to another

There is no option to copy or move a sheet from one PAW book to another. While this can be achieved by pinning every object on the sheet, this is time-consuming. This is particularly useful for a client with several applications designed for diffe...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

PAfE - Autofit setting for a Cube View (rows and columns) in the Viewer

Hi team, It would be highly appreciated by customers if you add auto-fit setting to Viewer in PAfE. At the moment the users have to resize width of the rows and columns to be able to start data analysis.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

AI Forecasting - Data Commit Notification

Hello team, While using AI forecasting at a consolidated level, the notification says that forecasting is completed, but the forecasted values do not show up immediately. I understand that the spreading process is still running the background. Sin...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add 'Non-Interactive' Subscription Management Account

In order to automate paw access and environment provisioning on the IBM Cloud, we need a trusted 'non-interactive account' similar to the current tm1_automation non-interactive account which is used to execute and run jobs on a tm1 database from e...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration