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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.

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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Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

When (re-)creating dimensions (incl. attributes) CubeSecurity on corresponding }ElementAttributes_ cubes should be NONE and not WRITE (as it is today) by default.

Deny WRITE access on newly created attributes cubes by default, in order to prevent users from entering data/attribute values.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for this SYSCOPY's index?

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for the SYSCOPY's index?, since DB2 v12 all tablespaces should be defined as Universal Table Space, PBR or PBG. Segmented and Simple tablespaces are deprecated.
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
26 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Custom Image Approach to Integrate Advanced IDEs such as PyCharm or Visual Studio Code (VSCode) in Watsonx/CP4D

In the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Watsonx/CP4D, Python development is currently facilitated through Watson Studio Notebook and JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). While these tools are sufficient for many users, more techni...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to Schedule calculations

Scheduling calculations in combination with auto advance feature would open doors for a plethora of use cases.
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review
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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration