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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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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

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create ability to add "delete" and "Disassociate" buttons on embedded Gridviews

Currently in the new OpenPages UI you can create Add Object buttons and Associate Object buttons on the embedded Grid views. For example, you are in a Test Plan and want to add a Test Result object. You can add a button right on the grid view to a...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot table

We need the ability to to somehow configure planning analytics (for excel) to show sub totals for the consolidations for selected dimensions in the rows? To be more precise: Let's assume we selected two dimensions in the rows and want to see the s...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Security 1 Not under consideration

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

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

possibility to add a column at the partition clause without dropping the table

We would like to have the possibility to modify the PARTITIONING clause without DROPPING the table, with an ALTER COMMAND
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Minimize cube viewer when exporting to any type of report in PAx

When using the cube viewer to export to any of the report types available in PAx , the viewer window remains in the foreground. You also cannot alt+tab to other windows when the viewer is open. The viewer should minimize when exporting to Excel li...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration