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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Progress Vizualization for Running a TI Process using PAW Button

Users are not informed/aware on the progress of running TI Process via PAW button. When the TI process runtime is taking more than 5 mins, PAW shows no sign of activity, users think that either the TI is done or the page hang.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Error Messages in the Application should be user friendly And/Or Explain the cause of error

Error Messages in the Application should be user friendly And/Or Explain the cause of error so Business Users can rectify instead of going back and forth to implementation team.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 7 Not under consideration

Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide a workaround to not use /tmp on Linux/Unix with EXEC permission

To avoid bug referenced PH08176 CANNOT UPLOAD CSV OR XLS WHEN /TMP IS MOUNTED AS NON-EXEC the /tmp directory must have EXEC permission (Linux/Unix)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

In grid view user can not filter top 100 or 200 record (for a field value or a date filed)

In object type with a lot of records, it's possibile to create personal and public filters BUT it's not possibile to filter a number or records (example top 100, top 200) order by a value (loss value or by a date (for example creation date or last...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control the sequence of loading in-memory aggregates from Dynamic Query Analyzer for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to control the sequence of how in-memory aggregates are loaded for Dynamic Cubes. Currently you can only pick and the sequence they are loaded is not predictable.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

API to automate workspace user management in PA SaaS (could be useful on-prem too)

With large systems containing many users it would save a lot of time if there was an official API that can be used to automate the addition invited users into PA Workspace (SaaS) as well as access levels rather than having to do it manually. This ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Give to portal pages from C10 same settings as My folder & Public folders

Since CA 11.0.11 you can enable Portal Pages from BI 10.x https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/portal-pages-in-cognos-analytics-r11/But "My portal pages" does not appear in perspective as "My content" and "Team content",...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration