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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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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Personalize PAW landing page after login

We would like the ability for administrator to easily define different PAW workbook for different users to land after login to PAW.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Have a full IBM supported Planning Analytics - CPLEX (Decision Optimization) API

Today TM1 / Planning analytics customers and partners who add CPLEX / decision optimization on top of PA rely on several routes: Turbointegrator tm1py An IBM contribution https://mediacenter.ibm.com/media/t/1_4jr4kuid Another IBM contribution http...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Store User Settings on Backend

When a user needs to clear browser cache and cookies they need to reconfigure their user settings in Platform (Control Hub). Please consider storing these settings on the backend so that users do not need to do this. The need to reconfigure negati...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Workbench also saving the database tree status

Currently the workbench preserves the status of the open tabs but the database tree visibility is managed elsewhere. The idea is that each workbench will keep its own tree visibility status. It would allow for a better separation of work between P...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide 'Member and leaves' option for PAW advanced synchronization

Hi team, We like the addition of the advanced options when it comes to synchronization in PAW views. One thing to consider is adding the option to synchronize members on rows based on a new option called 'Member and leaves'. This is very common re...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

OpenPages session should not timeout when user is working on Cognos

Some users have created self-serve report which took more than 1 hour for them and when they try to save the report it fails with Firewall Security Rejection. This is happening because of the session time out on OpenPages side. Even though, there ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
7 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

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