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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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Prevent Data Entry into Consolidated Rule Driven cells within PAW/Architect

Long running thread is spawn when data is spread on a consolidated rule driven cell. If an Admin user does not notice the thread, a restart of the instance is required to kill this thread
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Search for "pacakges" is needed in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos 11 users can search for 'Reports, Folders, Dashboards, Data, Explorations, Notebook and other' but one of the most important objects "packages" is not on the search list. It is often "how many packages are in ...... cognos environment" b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for TLS 1.2 (OpenSSL 1.0.1) to Cognos Gateway Apache module

The Apache module for the Cognos BI gateway (mod2_2_cognos.so) is currently compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8. In order to be run on a web server that supports TLS 1.2, this component needs to be compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1g or above.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to pre-filter data before dq rule execution

Currently we have a workaround using DataStage flows which is very complicated for end users to do themselves. We here in 2H 2023 there will be something using virtual tables?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Cancelling of Run Process Threads

Threads started by using RunProcess in a TI cannot be cancelled when using the Admin tool in Planning Analytics Workspace. We use the RunProcess to enable multi-threading of some of our load processes. We had the system go into wait mode because o...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Customized abbreviation dictionary to improve data class assignment and searching for business terms

Capabilites similar to Erwin and other data modelling tools in which abbreviations can be expanded for search and for field name recognition. Ideally, each field could also have an automatic "expanded" or un-abbreviated alias. Column name ABS_VAL ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Subset use in PAW

We get lot of requirement to create alternate hierarchy in Tm1 for Account, LOB and GEO. This will increase lot of load in cube as we are increasing the number of cells in cube and hence impacting the performance . If we can use subset in PAW view...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Need way for users to inspect Element Weight properties

In Perspectives our user would inspect the Element weight in the Dimension properties to ensure the weighting set for roll ups is correct. No longer an options for Non-Admin users in PAx or PAw
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists