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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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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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Restrict user sending reports out to anyone but themselves

REFERENCE CASE TS003064034, Higher risk applications leveraging Cognos have desires to restrict users to the point that reports or report links cannot be sent out to any other person or group in TO, CC, or Bcc sections, other than themself. Ther...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Needs more information

Drive Explorer needs to be able to unzip 7zip files

Our backups for Planning Analytics are created using 7zip, however we are currently unable to unzip these from within Drive Explorer. So with the decommissioning of Remote Access to the server, we would have to download these files, unzip them, th...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Openpages 9.0 Multiple Login Problem

Hi, For Openpages version 9.0, the application interface can be accessed from both sessions when logged in with the same user from different browsers on the same computer.We kindly request this problem to be fixed. While a session is active,when a...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Upload PDF Files in PAW / PAfE

In TM1 Architect there is the option to upload PDF files via “ Right-click on an existing application -> Add file...” to upload PDF files. These PDF files can then be downloaded via TM1 Web or via Perspectives. We could not find a way in PAW or...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket

The current version of DataStage or Cloud Pak for Data does not support IAM role-based access to the S3 bucket. Due to security constraints, instead of using an access key/secret key, it would be ideal if the S3 connector allowed the use of IAM ro...
16 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Restore documentation to CPLEX Studio installer

CPLEX Studio 22.1.2 did away with the "doc" folder containing documentation for the components, including in particular the Javadoc documentation for the Java API to CPLEX. Having a local copy of the reference manuals is desirable when working off...

Support for Cognos Dashboards

Currently, the product supports lineage for Cognos models, reports, queries, and other objects, but not dashboards. However, dashboards are what users are interested in, and the lack of support in the product forces users to go outside it to conne...
16 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Online conversion of index to partitioned index

Db2 13 Function level 500 introduces the online conversion of tables from growth-based (PBG) to range-based (PBR) partitions. The conversion alter is pending DDL applied by the REORG TABLESPACE utility. There is a need to also convert one or more ...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review