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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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Enable Dropdown in PaFe (Excel) when cell lock is applied

Users like PaFe addin and comfortable working in excel. So the template developed in excel they want to protect using cell security provided by excel. This Pafe template will be used both online and offline commit purpose. It is observed that when...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Integration between GCP Catalog and WKC.

There is no integration currently between WKC and Google catalog. WKC can’t show Tags from Google catalog in WKC. WKC can’t show Query from a View when it is imported to Catalog.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Pushdown execution on Hadoop

Customer current Catalog tool(Informatica) supports Pushdown Execution/Computation on Hadoop clusters and they have dependencies on this, so for competitiveness...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Logging in both Metadata Import and Enrichment don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred

Customer feels that logs don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred. Also feels if an import or an enrichment job takes long time to complete there is not much info in the logs to see how the jobs are progressing. The lo...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration