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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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Automated Deployment of PAW Objects from NonProd to PROD

In an environment where DEV team must not have access to PROD, creating books and applications and setting permissions in DEV environment and pushing them to PROD is not possible in PAW. It will require a human to interact with the PAW UI to do st...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1

Allow TFUI views to be renamed

The views usually evolve and the name becomes obsolete. It takes a lot of steps to copy them just in order to rename them. Admins end up not doing and the names get really confusing. Having functionality to rename them would be great.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Additional spaces in a Value Prompt when static values used

Additional empty spaces in a Value Prompt/ Radio button prompt in a interactive report when static values used and multiselect set to yes. No additional spaces in non interactive report.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Hide Hieararchy name from inner label of pie chart

Unable to hide hierarchy name from inside label - pie chart. Issue with Hierarchy names being hidden fixed in PAW 93 but this particular label doesn't appear to be part of properties to be able to hide.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

tool to list out active and default base params - lsparams

Think of 'bparams' and the level of details that it provides with args '-la'. This helps in figuring out what all params are configured as default or what defaults values are affecting the scheduling. Such a tool does not exist for LSF Base config...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enable Render Variables to hide/show columns for CSV and Excel-Data output format

Currently render variables and formats are completely ignored when executing a report in the output formats CSV and Excel-Data. Especially in cases where using render variables to display and hide complete list columns this would be very helpful. ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

PAW - LCM - Migrate Folder Structure and Permissions

Currently, the PAW Lifecycle Management tool can migrate objects such as books, but it can't migrate the folder structure nor the permissions of folders and books. For example, when I'd like to deploy a module (group of books and folders, e.g., Se...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration