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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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Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add an element in a cubeviewer

We would like to create an element in the IBM Planning Analytics Cube Viewer via right-click. This would greatly improve user-friendliness.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

TM1 API / Excel VBA - Refresh Sheet => Refresh Selected Sheet without sheet activate

In the TM1 PAX API it is currently only possible to update the current sheet. The sheet must therefore be activated before the refresh. It would be an advantage if you could specify the sheet and it would not have to be ‘activated’ beforehand. Rea...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Allow Better Aggregation Stage options such as the same column with multiple aggs or count option within the calculation option.

We have a need to do multiple aggregations on the same column for a grouping. 1. Sum it, 2. Count rows. You cannot use the same column twice, and count is not even an option within the calculation section, it is a separate option and exclusive.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

New MDM and Datastage releases available on RHEL 9.x on Power

Customer is currently running on X86 are InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v11.6/v12 & InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) v11.7. It is expected that MDM on RHEL 9 will be announced early 2024 and in order to have a chance at this winbac...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Track Deleted Items

Ability to track deleted items such as having a recycle bin.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Modify Recovery for COPY YES indexes

at the moment any SYSCOPY (and SYSLGRNX) entries for COPY YES indexes are deleted based on the corresponding action taken on the Tablespace (or partition). The strategy to keep the image copies and SYSCOPY related information for tablespace can be...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Customer is using Nexus IQ to scan SW images for potential CVEs before the SW is approved for installation. Customer is asking if IBM can use this tool internally to reduces the risk of sending them images with CVEs.

This is useful to proactively identity CVEs so that we can document and set the expectations with the customer when we deliver the SW to them.
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted