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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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Enhancement Request for User Roles in IBM Planning Analytics

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I am writing to propose an enhancement to the user roles within IBM Planning Analytics. Currently, administrative roles in IBM PA possess comprehensive privileges across all aspects of the system. However, this...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Enable Watch Rules in Cognos Analytics

We used to be able to create watch rules in Cognos 10X but that doesn't look like a case in Cognos Analytics. Customers can upgrade / import rules along with other content (Content Store) from C10 to C11 but they cannot create new rules.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 3 Not under consideration

Each window should contain links to corresponding documentation

IBM controls each window that is displayed in each Cloud Pak for Data service, and each documentation page. Users would benefit from having a direct link to the documentation that will help them understand/use the product.
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

failed logins in auditlog

In the audit logs (WAS_install_path/profiles/InfoSphere/logs) there is no information on failed logins. This information is only logged in the WAS SystemOut.log as Authentication failed.It would be important to have this audit-critical information...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Hide model components from users authorized only to use lower mandators

In large customers such as payment providers and banks usually setups go by multichannel -> channel -> department/customer. These institutions often want to have their centralized sets of rules and profiles that check the transactions indepe...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted