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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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Display Report in the Business Analytics Dashboard tab. Share the same Report between Dashboards.

Display and share reports created using new report authoring environment in the Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Namespace export to allow restore of individual users

This is a request to better protect User's data under the My Contents folders. Currently you can export all users but there is no granularity so that you can restore specific users that have an issue (It's all or nothing).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Zabbix support

Allow for Zabbix agent to be officially supported on the platform to have integrated monitoring of all systems in the company including CPDS.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Selected reporting period should be more prominent

In the standard UI the reporting period dropdown was visible while looking at data. In the TF UI this is now hidden and it is easy for users to get confused about whether they are in a previous reporting period or not. Suggestion is to move this t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Add a column in Audit database where the parent report name can be retrieved for a report view

We have a report for which we have created report views in "My Folder".We want to tie up all the runs of these report views to their parent reports in the audit report. For example, when we create report views with different names and run them, th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through window should have maximize button

When users drill through the window is small. When users want to drill through and see more data, they have to first move the screen from the center to the left and then expand the bottom. They need to do this for each time they drill through. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Implement custom colors in Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 reporting.

The reports are valuable, but the current color templates don't allow users to display critical, high, medium and low issues in a graphical format that is meaningful. For example, critical issues show in blue color, which doesn't allow leaders &am...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Make OpenPages reporting Dashboards visible in MS Office Desktop Plugin and exportable to PDF & PowerPoint

The reporting Dashboards aren't visible via the MS Office Desktop Plugin. It would also be valuable to be able to export them to PDF & PowerPoint.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration