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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.

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Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create New Locales or re-use/repurpose existing

Currently there are 10 locales (and a 'Reporting Design Language'). International business keep asking about Polish, Thai, Ukrainian, etc when we want to do build outs of modules or onboard a new region. Watson translate has helped with that, but ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

PA for Excel: View options are not saved

When you change the options in Viewer these settings are not saved. It is not very practical that hierarchy names are not shown by default.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Split License Scheduler log files

License Scheduler does not have the function to split log files(bld.log and blcollect.log). Could you please add a function to split the log file as below? bld.log.hostname bld.log.hostname.1 bld.log.hostname.2 bld.log.hostname.3 blcolle...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Workflow Notification Audit Trail

As an administrator, we need to have an audit trail of all the notifications which are sent by the workflows. This will help us in providing the details of to whom and what notifications were sent by the OpenPages as part of the workflow execution...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Relative Aliases for Forecasting

We are using the Basline Forecast to produce a 17 week production forecast. Every 3 weeks we re-forecast the 17 week period after reloading historical actuals. To minimize the maintenance each time we run the forecast, we have aliases on our week ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Possibility to execute STARTQ command with "CAPTUREUPTO" option

In high workload environments it would be very useful to let QCapture work on a STARTQ command with predefined end. Currently this can be done by a STARTQ command and after the SendQ is active a subsequent STOPQ with captureupto.But if for some re...
11 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Drill through window should have maximize button

When users drill through the window is small. When users want to drill through and see more data, they have to first move the screen from the center to the left and then expand the bottom. They need to do this for each time they drill through. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration