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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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138 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

SwapAliasWithPrincipalName for TM1 v12

Rename an element due to any possible reasons: A product needs a better name. An Employee changed maiden name. Company Re-Org CoA Change Input Correction In earlier version of TM1, understood SwapAliasWithPrincipalName is not supported, but is usa...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PlanningAnalytics for Excel

Hello, we need the function ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PAfE. This function would be very good for controlling the formatting of each line element in an Active Form without complicated detours using an ELISANC check.It would also be desirable to ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted
192 VOTE

Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A "OCP centric" DR solution

Intesa SanPaolo needs to organize periodically DR tests. These tests are conducted by creating OpenShift clusters in a isolate environment only when needed (once the DR test is completed, the clusters are deleted). Specifically, the client current...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Time Dimension Options

Performance Modeler has a wizard for generating a time dimension. It allows you to select period levels (i.e. Year, Quarter, Month, Week and Day). When generating a days dimension, it automatically knows how many days each month should have. Creat...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Save to File option error

We are currently working on migrating OpenPages+Cognos from traditional VM to CP4D and see that one of the feature is having issues and details given below: When we execute a report and trying the save the report output to a file system (Save to F...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Replicate a table with XML data type from IBM i (iseries AS400)

In the last few days we have had a situation in some customer with SAP on IBM i running, in which due to the characteristics of modernization of the database to adapt it for the use of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the requirement ...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration