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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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DataStage Support for MQv9.2 and MQv9.3 Required for HSBC (and very likely other users)

This is useful because: HSBC and other enterprise-class customers build standardised packages of software at compatible levels in support of business applications. Re-creation of these standard packages e.g. when a component reaches end of suppo...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Ability to migrate/export "Applications" and "Plans" in lifecycle management

Should be able to select Applications and Plans as objects to export or migrate in Planning Analytics Workspace - Lifecycle Management. Currently you can only export books and views.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Redshift Load from the S3 connector

We at NYL planning to move from On Prem to Cloud environment. We did a multiple testings with the help of IBM Support team and noticed that the Redshift loads using Redshift connector/JDBC connector as dead slow. This will impact all of our Target...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Change a package associated to a report

In 10.2.2 and before, you could click on the report properties and update the package a report points to. In Cognos 11, it appears you cannot do that, unless you load the classic view (Cognos Connection). This makes moving or copying multiple item...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Custom Message for Workflow Validations

When having validations via the workflow, the error messages are fairly standard and depending on the naming of the field may not really describe what the user needs to do to fix the problem. It would be useful to have custom validation messages p...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 5 Delivered

Enable/Disable replication (InSync) via IDAA HA Loader

If you enable an already loaded table, the following steps are carried out: ○ The data in the accelerator-shadow table is deleted. ○ The accelerator-shadow table is reset to the InitialLoadPending state. ○ Query acceleration is turned off f...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 3 Delivered

Can't bring existing objects into workflows

We can see how to remove objects from workflows, but there is no way to bring existing objects into their correct workflow in bulk. This is critical to us adopting workflows, because when a user sees a list of tasks they must complete, we must ens...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

PAW: Show Process Status Popup After Run Process by Button

After run a process by button in PAW, I'd like to see a popup message saying that the process has finished and its status, most of the times, successful.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered