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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Bulk Data and File/Link Move should be part of core platform

There are no standard platform delivered tools to bulk move business data, files and link objects. Often data has to be moved on mass to support organisation hierarchy changes, in particular split or merge changes.Services have to be engaged to cu...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

New UI - ability to save Manage Views sort order

There is currently no way to save the sort order in the Manage Views screen. It is very frustrating when working with many views that you have to keep applying the sort order every time you go into Manage Views
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Security issue of data in various Actualities

Example from our company. We have two separate Departments, IFRS and Budgeting, that use Cognos Controller simultaneously. The Departments use the same account and company structures, but different Actualities (AC –Actual, BU – Budgeting). The...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to administer services, processes, and threads via user interface.

See attached for detail son request with screen shots. The request is to provide ability similar to control user id previously available, requesting for the same in user interface, but without Admin level access. Similar to new OperationsAdminGrou...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable 'Temporal' for DB2 catalog object tables granular and optional

V12R1M500 enables to optionally activate/deactivate 'Temporal RTS tables'. Please provide to optionally and granular activate/deactivate 'Temporal catalog objects tables' as e.g. SYSTABLES, SYSVIEWS, SYSCOLUMNS, ... We know that temporal for catal...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add more coordinate system into DashDB, like GCS_WGS_1984_MAJOR_AUXILIARY_SPHERE

Now I am trying to migrate the IBM IOC database from DB2 to DashDB on Bluemix. However, when running the following cmds to create the resource, db2 "call db2gse.ST_create_srs('WGS84_AUX',300,-180,100000,-180,null, null, null, null,null, 'GCS_WGS_...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Default 'Reveal editable fields' during stage "Perform Self-Assessment"

Explore is the toggle switch "Reveal editable fields" could be automatically switched on upon a Control Owner opening a control which is in the stage "Perform Self-Assessment". This will allow for easier identification of a Control Owner how / whe...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Icon 'Suppress Zero' looks the same when clicked and not clicked.

We'd like to have an icon change i.e. to depressed when zeros are suppressed, so it's clear from the main window if zeros are suppressed, as per Server Explorer cube view.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration