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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Make the Cognos pop-up "validation" or "running report" contextual to its browser tab area

When validating or running a report and switching to the home screen or to another report the hourglass pop-up message remains in the front persistently. Our expectation is the pop-up message "Validating with report server" remains in the tab area...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Option to hide tabs/menus with embedded PAW workbooks

Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.60 introduced the embed parameter, allowing workspace workbooks to be embedded inside an iframe. Using path: http[s]://<pawhost>[:<pawport>]/?perspecitve=dashboard&path=/shared/mybook&embed=true...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Native API connectors from IBM CCR (On Cloud) to PowerBI

It is popular today for Native API connectors for a variety of systems and understanding that an organization may not utilize solely 1 or 2 systems from a principal. Hence, the need for native API connectors between various principals. Such would ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

In reference to this Db2 for z/OS idea (link), we need the same functionality for all platforms including Db2 for LUW. I quote the text from the other RFE: Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.0...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COPY to support LOB INLINE COPY as input

More than 80% of our data consist of LOB data. In case of drop recovery we depend on utilities such as DSN1COPY. Without this feature provided DSN1COPY cannot be used for drop recovery when we have to use a LOB INLINE COPY as input.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Report to validate Users per tenant in Planning Analytics (export users)

Currently in Planning Analytics we are not able to identify per tenant which users do we have assigned to each. We need to click on each user to validate if the user has access to an specific one.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedule a report without Write capabilities

Is it possible to allow for users to schedule a report, even if Write access has not been specified to the reports in a folder - as the ability to schedule a report is important, but to also have security enabled so that a user cannot make any cha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit domains that can be invited to PA

An account administrator is able to invite a user with an email address with any domain. This opens up the system for a new security threat as having an internal ID is no longer necessary. Prior to the usage of IBM ID, when being on security mode ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration