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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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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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Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
over 4 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt CAMPassword for parameterized URL

Using a parameterized URL to open dashboards, reporte, ... including login credentials, the CAMPassword value can only be passed as plaintext value. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/parameterized-url-perform-login-and-open-dashboard-or-report For...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Option to hide the skill tiles in the home page without affecting the skill functionality

To enhance an optional feature, when enabled, it can introduce a level of abstraction that hides individual skills within the skill flow from WxO chat window. This allows only the skill flow to be displayed in WxO chat, reducing potential confusion.
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Facility to manage access by parametrized url on an unauthorized folder

If a user accesses from a third-party portal via a Cognos parameterized url on a Cognos folder to which he does not have rights,the native cognos home screen is displayed with this error message :"Unable to load requested view. Displaying home vie...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

allow CAE to refresh certificates while running

The CAE is configured to get the keyring and certificates at startup. the keyring and certs are inside our ESM (in our case ACF2, but this applies to RACF, etc) We need to update the server certificate inside the keyring every NN days. Today, to g...
7 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Default Sort Order in PAW

We are trying to set the default sort order to Alphabetic (A-Z) in PAW for the assets within the folder. But every time we log off and login it defaults back to last modified. There should be a config setting included to sort the workbooks in an a...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 AI should discover and prevent deadlocks, for example in situations where programs that previously have been in deadlock situations are expected to deadlock again.

In deadlock situations, one of the involved programs will be rolled back, resources have been unnecessarily used and DBA’s must spend time investigating deadlocks. In transaction intensive systems deadlocks also may cause response time delays or o...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Hide/Disable Print Report delivery option

Our standard users do not have ability to save report as a delivery option in Team Content. When running a report in background using Run As, the default delivery option is set to Print Report. We do not have print option configured for our users....
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration