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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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Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Documentation

We need to justify PAW's infrastructure and security requirement due to its super complicated infrastructure requirement, most IT department from mega-size companies to SME cannot understand how PAW actually work and approve the PAW's infrastructu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Restrict Access to columns/attributes based on role

Allow admins to determine which attributes a user has access to view in queries and within a case. This could be handled at the role level. Not all users need access to the same type of data; limiting which users can see each attribute helps infor...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Planned for future release

Command to activate and deactivate a chore

In some cases we come across a scenario in which a chore, especially the one that executes save data all, impacts on the execution of a large process, e.g. a macro that executes several assessments, taking 1h30 to finish the execution, it would be...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SQL Data Insights - Using user-defined RACF group to associate SQL DI users instead of default group SQLDIGRP

During installation of SQL DI it is not possible to change the default group name SQLDIGRP. This group will be used, to associate SQL DI users and manage their access. But to fit in the specific conventions of RACF group names in a company, a diff...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide/filter out rows in a crosstab without the crosstab summary totals changing

Users need the ability to exclude (filter out) a line item in a cross tab but still have the amount from that line item be included in the summary total. Currently when you exclude the line, the summary total is reduced by the amount of the line.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Questionnaire Assessment to display object that is associated to question in questionnaire template

Currently you can associate an object (risk or control in my case) to a specific question inside of the questionnaire template (See screenshot 1) However, when you are answering this question in a questionnaire assessment there is no link/view to ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

Request for enhancement of ACR when one db2 member is in the progress of DB ACTIVATE.

If one member is failed , the applications heading to the failed member should be automatically rerouted to another member in any situation. But, when DB-ACTIVATE is in progress, automatic connection reroute function is not available. So, it shoul...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration