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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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Change order of items in Catalog UI

Requesting a custom sort feature in asset Business Term / Classification and Custom Properties sections so the user can define which order they are displayed in. This will help users see what's important to them higher in the list. Currently c...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

A feature for "Retention tags" to establish retention categories and date ranges for Object in the Portal.

A feature that would allow users/admins to set a date limit on reports or any object so say they wanted a report only to be available for 1 week they could set it to be deleted from the portal April 18th lets say...or for a year, April 11th 2024.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add Transaction Application lock types to the DBMS_LOCK package

We understand that there is an implementation of a version of the Oracle DBMS_LOCK package (minus transaction type and various modes) available on Db2 for LUW. While we can make some use of the session application lock type, we also have a need fo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PAW report URL - possibility to assign alias (instead of using URL)

Deploy a PAW report to production environment without changing the URL of the report? Background: Updates of reports that are created with design features are saved as Chrome favorites by many end users. Deploying the changes with import functiona...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow Planning Analytics for Excel to work with Chromium browsers

The current version of PAX uses Internet Explorer 11 as its back-end. This browser is no longer being updated or supported by Microsoft soon. Instead, it is being replaced by the chromium-based Edge browser, now standard on most Windows 10 compute...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configuration to prevent company journals from being entered in anything other than local currency

Add to Cognos Controller a configuration setting to prevent users from entering company journals in anything other than local currency.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fastmap #4: FastMap should validate field dependencies and picklist dependencies defined for an object type

FastMap should validate field dependencies and picklist dependencies defined for an object type
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 3 Not under consideration

Filter Rules - more configuration options

In configuring Filter Rules associated to a Grid Action in a View, more configuration options should be made available. E.g.: compare field with a constant value or with a value in a parent object or expression
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration