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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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PAW: allow multiple Workbenches to be open at the same time

When you have multiple projects or activities saved as individual Workbenches, you can only have one open at a time. Cannot reference other Workbenches or open more than one simultaneously, so have to continuously open, save, copy, screenshot, clo...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
15 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Enable non-admins to edit global color palettes

In the current versions of Cognos Analytics it is only possible for system admins to create, alter or delete global color palettes. Creating a capability would give power users the ability to edit the color palettes used in their dashboards withou...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Increase size of scroll bars

Is there any chance of increasing the size of the scroll bars and maybe highlight the size of the scroll bar area? When moving around the screen quickly it is difficult to pinpoint the location of the scroll bar area (hence highlight the size of s...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add a 'Created by' and 'Modified by' to PAW books in a 'Properties' menu

Hi! We manage an environment that has thousands of users and multiple developers (both internal and external). The environment is secured in a way where users have access to specific databases and no one should have access to more than one databas...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Hide selected visualization types from end users in PAW

Provides users with filtered lists of visualizations based on those most frequently used and those deemed to work best with underlying data sets. Removes end user confusion when shown too many options. Add visualization selection options in Custom...
17 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Kerberos Authentication for the Cloudera Kafka connector

We use kerberos authentication on our cloudera schema registry, we were told by Manta support team to disable the authentication on our side to try the functionality while you finish the kerberos authentication development. We have successfully co...
17 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted