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


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131 VOTE

Restrict user sending reports out to anyone but themselves

REFERENCE CASE TS003064034, Higher risk applications leveraging Cognos have desires to restrict users to the point that reports or report links cannot be sent out to any other person or group in TO, CC, or Bcc sections, other than themself. Ther...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
204 VOTE

Single Sign-On (SSO) in Planning Analytics Workspace

Based on IBM PMR 46964,060,678 - Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation to Planning Analytics Workspace is not supported as of today.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists
182 VOTE

Ability for administrator to see users groups, roles and capabilities

As an administrator it would be very helpful and useful to be able to see the groups, roles and capabilities assigned to a specific user.It would help the administrator understand why a users is signed for a specific license.Eg.: Why is user AAA r...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to delete orphaned jobs on Platform

Currently, the only way to delete orphaned jobs is to remove the directories using these commands: rm -rf /data/pipelines/<pipeline ID> rm -rf /data/runInfo/<pipeline ID> Please add the ability to delete orphaned jobs for either the fo...
16 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
10 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration