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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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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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Time Dimension Wizard only supports Jan to Dec financial years

It’s great to have a Time dimension wizard, but it’s very restrictive as there seems no way to customise the fiscal year. Many of our customers are public sector bodies, so an Apr-Mar fiscal year is required but I can’t see how this can be changed.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler for extracting reportbook in Excel

During the monthly reporting period, many reportbooks must be generated in Excel (around 50). Each reportbook must be generated in separate folder.At this time, this is done manually reportbook by reportbook. For example, It can be great to use Wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Financial Management - Adjustments - Details screen filtering

On the "Financial Management - Adjustments - Details" screen. We would like it to be in entry order and within each entry sorted by amount in descending amount order
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Store Procedure does not support External Authentication in IBM datastage

Store Procedure stage does not support External Authentication in IBM datastage where as Oracle connector supports External authentication. IBM Case#TS003883130
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Report Studio support for using parameter maps as data source for value prompts

In addition to the "query" and "static choices" options for providing data for a Cognos Report Studio "value prompt", also allow the use of a "parameter map". The parameter map's "key" would be mapped to the value prompts "Display" property and th...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 REST API should support apikey for authentication

Currently the Db2 REST API supports authentication by user/password but not apikey. This means that programs cannot take advantage of service IDs and IAM. A real nuisance.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

existing “Current copy” is lost due to current db2 plan management scope

When we use PLAN management (Extended) option, the active “Current copy” will become “Previous Copy” during REBIND activity, and ORIGINAL COPY will be retained if it is created already or this current copy will be stored as ORIGINAL COPY ....
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Oracle connector : support of SDO_GEOMETRY data types

we are not able to insert GEOMAP data to oracle DB. We opened case with IBM #TS003869041 and they informed us that SDO_GEOMETRY is not a supported Oracle data type target for DataStage and asked us to open RFE.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Automate the Merge User o...

No description provided
almost 9 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Mobile Config - CMUG with Mobile Iron Setting

Cognos 10.2.2 Within Cognos Admin Screen > Mobile > Remote Configuration can you include a config setting to turn on/off the the Mobile Iron setting within the most recent release of the iPad App.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration