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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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Restore the PAW book/asset/tab name on content switcher navigation drop down that was removed in PAW SC90 update

Previously (until PAW SC90 was released Sep 19, 2023) users were able to navigate easily between books/tabs/assets within an Application or Plan via the Content Switcher Navigation Drop down. This was removed in this release making it more cumbers...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos job trigger using Apache Airflow

we would like to have functionality, to trigger cognos jobs using apache airflow.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Require really fast fuzzy text search

Current fuzzy search using text search indexes is really slow. Need a subsecond answer for millions of rows.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce select only fields for the object. Do not automatically bring back all fields in the child relationships.

This is about the DataStage Salesforce Connector. When building the Salesforce Connector Stage by importing the objects fields from Salesforce using the "Browse Objects" function . A list of tables in Salesforce will be presented. One can click th...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Shareholdings and investments in external companies, restrict to current period

Our users add values in Shareholdings and Investments for external companies via a form. In the Shareholdings register the users can add other dates than from current period. But in the form it will be saved at current period. See attached documen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Date prompts to include period options (Required for scheduling )

It would be grate if date and Date time Prompts would contain Extra options like: Current month Current Year Previous Year This is a big problem for scheduling reports.Yes there are work arounds, However for regular users who create a reports its ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LifeCycle Manager Default User

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, you could assign a default user and password, but then didn't have to input it ever again. I am getting prompted 3 different times to get to a project just so I can look at it or edit it. That is extreme...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

Cognos connector for DVM

Is Cognos connector for DVM on the Cognos roadmap? If yes, what is the ETA? Associate with Service Request TS014308997
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Request for password reset from cognos login screen

Need to raise and enhancement for resetting the password from Cognos login screen itself when ever they need. Can you please let me know the steps to raise enhancement. Business Justification: It should be possible for the user to change password ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration