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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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Cognos Login screen showing a pre-filled value for Namespace

Hi, We are on CA R5 installed in a distributed mode on Linux with dual namespaces called "ADESI" and "ES" configured. In version 10, the namespace value on the login screen is pre-populated in the alphabetical order i.e. with ADESI first and ES la...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Catalog Admins should be able to manage Private Assets

Currenty only Asset Owners or Members can view a Private Asset. Admins should be able to take the same actions on private assets as public assets. Admins of a catalog should be able to see private assets to ensure that the correct asset members ar...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Sharepoint Connector

Customers request an out-of-box connector for Sharepoint. The connector should support Sharepoint On-Premises. The connector should also support specifying the Site Collection URL.
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Select Alias from dimension short cut menu on views

It would be great to be able to change the Alias for a dimension hierarchy from the shortcut menu of the dimensions selector, similar to the way we can change the hierarchy. Currently we have to open the Set Editor to change the Alias or select th...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show IIPCP Eligible data in Operational Summaries and Activity by SQL Text

In CPU panel information it would be very userful to have information about IIPCP eligible data, I mean the CPU time consumed on standard CP for work eligible on IBM speciality engine (zIIP). Additionally this data could be used to create an excep...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Use SHIFT or CTL key to select values from a multi select drop down list. It is working on the standard UI but not on the Task Focused UI.

It is useful to choose many/all values with less clicks.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

remove the need of backup/restore for Planning Analytics Workspace

can IBM put the data from curren PAW backup to a cube on IPA data server? remove the need to run backup/restore for PAW? for a pipeline deploying of PAW, the backup/restore process is especially hard to implement/maintain. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mass creation or migration of Virtual Target System maps

Our goal is to use the same VTS names in our formal test environments that are used in production so that developers do not need to change them during the import/export process. On the test environments, we simply point the VTS's to the test endpo...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration