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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users Refer to PMR TS003370023
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Allow the passing of non-text attribute values into overwritable text attributes

Non-text attribute values (numeric, timestamps, amounts, etc) are unable to be passed into overwritable inputs or outputs which are defined as text. Would like the ability to pass the output of any attribute into an attribute defined as text.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) - Allow the use of subsets in the DBRW function

In Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) the DBRW Excel function does not allow to use subsets to retrieve data, but only dimension members, unlike with Planning Analytics Perspectives where the use of subsets is allowed in the DBRW function. At Bac...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0.

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0. Classic corrects the above tiff error and FTM does not.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Remove 'Idle timeout' from IBM Controller cloud environment

The new IBM Cloud environment has the ridiculous setting that users are kicked out after 15 minutes being idle.Users cannot logon anymore and can not report there data. IBM will rapidly lose customers when this is not solved. Unacceptable that thi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration