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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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Enable advanced drill behavior in interactive mode

Advanced drill behavior give report developers a fine grain of control when building reports. Interactive mode no longer supports it, which causes a number of issues. An option should also be added to allow single-click drilling, as my users are c...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Auto selection of same Object type Primary Parent.

Currently , when a existing primary parent is disassociated , the new primary parent is selected based on chronological order even when we update the heuristic setting to "Folder Context". For example if the Risk is the Primary Parent of the Contr...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Renaming Data Item Fields/Label and Field Header display

On the Cognos Analytics Dashboard, currently there are no direct way to rename "Data Item Name" and "Data Item Label" (Display name). This feature available in Congos Reports - where users can click on the field and chose to Rename "Data Item Name...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to include 7zip for application backups in TM1 Servers

We are not able to do backups and zip the data as we use to do on-premise.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics integration with Sharepoint

We would like IBM to take up and provide a detailed solution on how to integrate IBM Cognos Analytics 11 with SharePoint
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Multi-Variable Calculations

Currently unable to define a formula as multi-variate and be able to hold one value, enter in another and have it update the remaining variableEx:Margin % = (Rev – Cost)/RevenueScenario 1 – Enter Revenue or Cost and have it update Margin %Scen...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Official documentation of FMP enhancement variables DB2_AGENT_CACHING_FMP and DB2_MAX_THREADS_PER_FMP

Valuable enhancements for db2fmp processing have been added back in Db2 V8 and V9 already via APAR (e.g. IZ08425), but they are still NOT documented for Db2 V10 and V11, although they are valid and available. Concerning Java stored procedure handl...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration