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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.

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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Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

duplicate existing role or user group

To be able to clone users, user groups, and roles to make user set up and assignment a lot easier. We're currently setting up several sub-categories as data domains. Each one will have a different user group as approvers for workflow purposes. To ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Hide the criticality and the due date field for Workflows

The criticality and the due date fields are not always used by the customer. There is no way to hide these fields because when they appear on the UI they confuse the end user. And this confusion actually hurts the zero training UI stance of OpenPa...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard Widgets to be controlled by groups

The average configuration of OpenPages sees a heavy usage of the Dashboard and currently if a dashboard is getting too cluttered you are forced to either train the user to remove the widgets themselves, or to create a new profile (a very heavy lif...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Request of support CPLEX for MATLAB

Dear Ma'am/Sir, I'm aware that some time ago, IBM decided not to continue their support for a MATLAB interface. However, with this message I want to speak not only for myself, but also for the community of COBRA Toolbox users. I have had many diff...
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Submitted

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

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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

Enable Publishing at Schema Level

We are requesting an enhancement to enable publishing at the schema level. Currently, in versions 4.8.1 and 4.8.3, there is no asset type at the schema level, and we can only publish at the individual asset level. This capability was available in ...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3

Enable Multiple Users to Enrich Different Tables Concurrently in a Single Enrichment Job

We are requesting an enhancement to allow multiple users to enrich different tables concurrently within a single enrichment job. Currently, the system throws an error message when more than one user attempts to enrich different tables at the same ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release