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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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Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup and Restore created reports

Export a lifecycle management asset from PAW to backup our more than 3000 reports somewhere and restore if required. We had an end user that has lost a report/view in personal folder which we could not restore. The end user needed to re-create the...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

include num of Rows discarded in a REORG DISCARD utility execution

It can/will be VERY useful to Db2 zOS users if the Object level utilities history will record the number of rows discarded in a REORG DISCARD utility execution. As documented I understand that the object level information will be available in v13 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

OpenPages Integration with Azure AD

We are seeing more customers moving to Cloud services, and one of the services getting adopted more frequently is Azure AD. Neither OpenPages nor SDI contain connectors for Azure AD. Can you please extend the product to provide capabiliy to Integr...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Not under consideration

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Multiple IMS connection support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can connect to single IMSsubsystem only. Therefore, when multiple IMS subsystems exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each IMS subsystem to access data in all IMS subsystems.If DVM can support conne...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review