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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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Import Specification Filter to allow Filter with Wildcard by Filename

Customer has a folder where the import csv files are generated. User sometimes forget to remove the old files before scheduling the import. Would help if the filter could filter out the files to load by the filename. (ie. period on the filename so...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future 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

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

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

Alter Index add column

When altering index adding columns ' the index status change to rebuild pendig ' need to put in in change pending and let appliction use this index until rebuild or reorg the index , and then rebind packeges
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

New system user creation, password reset and configuration change activities

Our pain point is that we need to perform re-deployment activity for container{pod} with downtime approx 15-20 min for specific use cases. These are as follows: 1. Users. Creation of new system user and resetting of existing user's password. 2. ...
almost 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

Please provide support for current versions of Ubuntu. Version 14.04 is not supported by Canonical anymore. Support for version 16.04 will expire soon, too. New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Secure "attach report to email" as a package or report level capability

Within an organization, different data owners often have different policies about attaching data/reports to email. Cognos Analytics should support a more granular configuration for this permission.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to specify column width and row height in PAW

Currently it is not possible to specify a value for row height and column width for exploration views in Planning Analytics Workspace. Such a feature would make it easier to achieve the desired layout of exploration views.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists