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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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Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
almost 2 years ago in Optim 1 Future consideration

PAW: More flexibility in assigning colors

Currently the sequence of colors in the palette determines the selected color per chart element. It would be great, if a user could flexibly assign colors from the palette to individual elements. The default could be the sequence of the palette an...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

PAW: Assign colors to elements

It would be great to have the option to centrally assign a color to an element in a dimension. i.e. Actuals are always black, budget always blue, forecast always green. These colors could then show up by default in any charts and maybe also as fon...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

DDL creation support thru implicit trusted connection

Trusted context is a very good security mecanism to promote a user from an application server to a specific role. We face 2 problems:- DDL issued from Siebel application server, when applying a change, fails for CREATE TABLE- If user has no direct...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Close all open books

In PAW the functionality to close all open books is missing. Currently a user has to close one book at a time. A functionality similar to TM1 Web "Close all" and "Close others" is desirable.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

CAM Copy User Security Group Assignment

In the current design of CAM, the administrator can copy a group and it is working fine. However, when we want to copy a user's profile, it became impossible, as there is no visibility for us to know what group the user is belong to. In many occas...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Generate reporting periods in an automatic and scheduled way

New reporting periods are generated by user in OpenPages manually. It would be very helpful a new function to schedule the creation of reporting periods when you create them always at the same moment in the month, quarter or year.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Not under consideration

create schedules but not reports

To create more fine-grained permissions, so we could grant "Write schedules" but prohibit "Write reports", or something like that
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration