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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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Cells locked for data entry in the form's Excel layout (standard form), should be locked also in CCR Web

In some standard forms it's necessary to lock a cell for data entry by using "Cell specification" within the Excel layout. It's an issue that this locking is not supported in Controller Web.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past without the need to have previously saved a reporting period (snapshot). It should ideally roll-up all data changes occurred in the database till ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Future consideration

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Calculations for storing in forms in Controller web

Example: It would be great to have forms where you kan mix different actualities, and have calculations which makes the summation stored in the db. For example in the budget-process when you define forms where you get AC (YTD) in the first column ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Add DB2 zigzap scan capability to Informix

Add DB2 zigzap scan capability to Informix. Simliar to Db2 jump scan but on both indexes in a join.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add DB2 jump scan capability to Informix

Add DB2 jump scan capability to Informix. Same use case as DB2. For indexes where not all the leading columns have predicates but non-leading columns have query predicates.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes Replicate “}ApplicationSecurity” cube for workbook security, dimensions are }WorkbookEntries }GroupsThe settings in the cube are• View only - The user can view content in the book but can't edit it.• ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration