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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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Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to Store Data Connection in Job

We deliver several (20+) data sets to our clients in a multi-tenant environment. These datasets are deployed with demo data. They must copy these to a secured tenant folder in order to update them with their own data. We provide a pre-defined job ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

CP4D - Need Super Operator Role for Cloud pak for Data (DataStage) Projects

We need a Super Operator role in CP4D (DataStage) projects which is equivalent to Legacy DataStage role. Please find the following tasks which Super Operator can perform. Cloud Pak for Data Super Operator (DataStage) Can perform the following task...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Allow the transfer/ copy of private views to different users

Public views become too crowded if are used by different departments in the same company. It is relevant and helpful to have a list of department/ standard views available for all interested users. In order to be able to have this list in an effic...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans: Subtasks

Currently there is only the option to create a task and not subtasks. There is a need for a task to have subtasks, as well as the subtasks to be assigned to different contributors / approvers then the parent task.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Ability to modify/remove 'Quick reference' from 11.0.8 home screen

With the the 11.0.8 interface, need to capability to modify (preferred) or to remove the 'quick reference' menu. As delivered it has links to external sites.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Replicate Dashboard Map Functionality in Reports (Drill Through and Brushing)

Replicate Dashboard Map Functionality in Reports
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release