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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Update of SDK documentation for CA

The SDK for IBM Cognos has not been updated since 10.2.2. The current version of CA contains at least 12 new classes: ShowHintsEnumReportMetadataHistoryDetailMoserServiceBaseReportMetadataExplorationCustomizationDataSourceSchemaBaseModuleUploadedF...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enabling Restrict on Drop clause logic in create table command for db2 LUW

There is a feature called "Restrict on Drop" that should be used by the database designers while creating a table for the db2 LUW database 1) If a database designer uses this "Restrict on Drop" clause for the creation of the table then the tabl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Audit for Schedules

The Cognos Audit package should be able to report on All schedules in Cognos for all users with details and the list of recipients for the report. This is helpful for internal and external audits for security to identify if the report is going to ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Automatically display the Primary hierarchy by default in Persona UI

Currently, when users open the catalog in Persona, the hierarchy field appears blank, requiring manual selection each time.It would be more efficient if the hierarchy defined as Primary in the model were displayed automatically by default. This en...
3 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Allow to customize the standalone mode of the Questionnaire Assessment

As of now the standalone mode of the questionnaire assessment has Completion required and Due date fields available for users in the header, but in the custom task view of QA there can be another fields like Progress for example in the header. Loo...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Add Edit in Preview Mode Default Action to report properties

Adding a default action of "Edit in preview mode" to report properties would help with lots of users who are using Analysis Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced in C10 get more quickly customized with Cognos Analytics as context filters and metadat...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customized PAW books theme

The background themes in PAW books have limited predefined colour options. The themes should be able to be customized on the basis of required RGB colour combination or image. There are times when clients want to use a different colour or image ra...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced WatsonX.ai On-Premise Installtion with Automated Setup Assistant and AI-Driven Documentation Search

Problem Overview The installation process of WatsonX.ai's on-premise solution is currently cumbersome, characterized by time-consuming troubleshooting due to generic documentation. Without access to internal IBM guidance or an SME, users often fac...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Support for CSV Format with Import/Export of(category/items) in IBM Product Master

Currently, IBM Product Master only supports Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) format for data import and export operations across items and hierarchies. This creates limitations for organizations that rely on alternative formats or automated data exchanges....
8 months ago in Product Master 1 Planned for future release