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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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COS Allow tagging for backup and log files

COS objects can be tagged at creation e.g. to specify the time the COS object how long the object should be kept.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 2 Future consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Date and User selector type Question in Questionnaire

It would be better to have the Date and User single and multi-select as question type in Questionnaire
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Allow use of wildcards in Search requests

Allow use of wildcard characters in "search" text strings. The allowable characters could emulate those defined by Google (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en)
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Display and Manage Persistent Volume (PV/NFS) Information in PAW Administration

For IBM Planning Analytics Cartridge on Cloud Pak for Data , TM1 data is stored on Persistent Volumes backed by NFS, NAS, or CSI storage. However, There is no visibility in PAW about where the data directory is mounted. The admins must run oc comm...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 1 Submitted

paw search code functionality to be extended to PAfE

Currently in PAW, we can search for a specific keyword within TIs and Rules. While this is a welcome move, it would be great to extend that functionality for PAfE reports being published. This will ensure we can proactively investigate and perform...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow regular users to view account and company hierarchies

Some of our users in central group accounting want to have the possibility to view the hierarchies in Cognos Controller (Account and Company) Preferably by being able to view it in the menus "Maintain - Account Structure - Define" and "Maintain - ...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Functionality already exists