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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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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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Custom Control (Authorized Drill Through)

When creating custom controls like visualizations or data tables it is not possible to perform an out-of-the-box drill-through (authored drill through). Yes, you can use URL parameters to create a psuedo drill-through. However, this is very poor p...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Conversion from Cognos 10 to Cognos 11

Provide a tool to convert Cognos 10 Dashboard (created using Cognos Workspace) into Cognos 11 Dashboard. This will allow the editing and enhancement of Cognos 10 Dashboards using the new Cognos 11 Dashboard Studio. A functionality that does not cu...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PDF output of D3 SVG diagrams

As you know, this library inserts a vector graphic element into the page. And we faced problem when making an output of the report to PDF. We expected that the default PDF output functionality is not limited for d3 visualisations. So if IBM presen...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding calculated as option to Active report "Summarize in output"

Active report with COL1, COL2, COL3 where COL3 is COL2/COL1. When using default summary calculation totals er calculated correct, but when changing to summarize in output the calculation options does not include an option for "calculated" hence ma...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration