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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.

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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Option to copy prompt parameters between reports and report views

We are missing option to copy saved prompt parameters between report views or reports.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Loss of Functionality in IBM Planning Analytics Excel - Browse function

In TM1 Perspective you are able to initiate a "Browse" (now called "Open in Viewer") at the cube level. in IBM Planning Analytics Excel you cannot, when you right mouse button on the cube in the Task Pane all you get is Refresh. If you scroll down...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Time Stamp for password change

So the AD Admin Website https://manager.controller.ibmcloud.com is used to change and manage the passwords for users. We need a Timestamp of when the password was last changed. IBM says the password can be changed only once in 24 hours. Without a ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Sorting and Hiding control of Alt Hierarchy roots in PAw

We have many Alt Hierarchies we have created (30+ for some dims) But no all users leverage or need everyone. Some are for TI system processes. We wish to be able to hide (by group security) the Alt Hierarchies that users do not need to see. ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Edit in a Datasheet View in UI

We need the ability for end-users to bulk edit records in the system in a datasheet view (where they can copy and paste data from Excel to OpenPages). This should be in the UI for end-users not a Fastmap template. This is different from Grid ...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term

Allow data steward add Policy directly while working with Business Term Currently, if I have 2 Policy "Policy 1" and "Policy 2" artifact and publish it Create 2 Business Term "Term 1" and "Term 2" and publish it Go to policy "Policy 1" and add Art...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration