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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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Condtional formatting of report chart axis

In our scenario we have several hundred KPIs measured on scorecards (one report in Cognos). The KPIs can have differing unit types, such as Percent with 2 decimal places, Percent with 4 decimal places, whole numbers, CAD currency, USD currency, et...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to managed Administration password by Wallets and SFTP or FTP process

Many clients are tightening security around how administration passwords and secrets are managed including storage. My client has stringent security protocols as such would like to have the ability to managed passwords via Wallet and SFTP process ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

TM1/PAL server able to connect to more than one BI environment with integrated security mode 5

Today it is easy to hit limits on connecting one TM1/PAL instance to only one CA11 environment as there is only one BI environment to be configured in tm1s.cfg for authentication. IntegratedSecurityMode = 5 ClientCAMURI = http://gateway.domain...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Displaying labels (values) within Area chart

We can't display value labels within Area chart by dimension. It only displays totals when we hover mouse over area. This does not present complete information in user friendly manner. See the desired attached chart.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Cubes support for mySQL

Dynamic Cubes cannot currently be modelled for mySQL (schemaless database)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export all of Business terms or filtered terms

There is no method to export all of Business terms, they have to be exported per category. In addition, could there be more options to export Business terms based upon search results, predefined category combinations, classifications, tags, etc.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Shareholdings and investments in external companies, restrict to current period

Our users add values in Shareholdings and Investments for external companies via a form. In the Shareholdings register the users can add other dates than from current period. But in the form it will be saved at current period. See attached documen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

ODBC - Bulk Load capability

CP4D - DataStage will be used in the data flows defined in our datalake using Postgres and Azure SQL. Because we are required to use the ODBC Connector for the connections we require the capability of doing Bulk Loads , exactly as this is offered ...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Require really fast fuzzy text search

Current fuzzy search using text search indexes is really slow. Need a subsecond answer for millions of rows.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Not under consideration

Warning and/or Summary before deleting an object with multiple associations

A warning message for users would be helpful for example in a scenario when someone is trying to a "Common Control" that is linked to multiple Sub-processes via multiple Risks. Also, a summary of number and type of objects that will be deleted / o...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Not under consideration