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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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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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JDBC gateway managment and installation improvements

We have segregation of duties in our environment and very strict use of super user authority. Who install the product, install it using a specific RACF group. The start/stop of the JDBC process will be given by the userid of the automation tool, o...
about 22 hours ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Addition of Column Reordering Feature in IBM Data Refinery

As a user of IBM Data Refinery, I appreciate the platform's robust capabilities for data preparation and cleansing. However, I have identified a significant functionality gap that I believe could greatly enhance the user experience and productivit...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Change a clients password in workbench as ADMIN

In Architect you can change a clients password in the "Client/Groups" window. The corresponding view in workbench ("Manage users and groups") does not have that functionality.Since client-impersonation is standard during development/testing-cycle ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need better warning text when deleting folders

Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Run a process based on a change in an element within a synchronization group.

Today, in order to create a guided experience for users we utilize a cube that stores user's current PAW book selections (which is then used to drive MDX subsets in the remainder of the book). It works very well except that users have to make thei...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...
2 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted