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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Facility to manage access by parametrized url on an unauthorized folder

If a user accesses from a third-party portal via a Cognos parameterized url on a Cognos folder to which he does not have rights,the native cognos home screen is displayed with this error message :"Unable to load requested view. Displaying home vie...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adjusting the placement position of standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
7 months ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

further options and possibilities for the bubble chart

Hello, if I look right, so now, it is only possible to assign some keyfigures to the X/Y-achsis and to the size. Is it in plan to extend the possibilities for this chart, e.g. to define the basis for the size, to define min and max values, to edit...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding a View in PAW will add the 'Default' view if available

When right clicking on a view in PAW PAW should check for and open the default view (Public / Private) if available. this is the same behavior as architect
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log Failed LOADS in db history file

Please refer to IBM CASE TS012541333 for further details Db2 database history file registers several SUCCESS and FAILED operations. If a backup has been executed, and if it failed or completed ok . if a restore has been done, and if it failed or c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Not under consideration

API call to retrieve patch/fix information for any product

Currently we have to check for the existence of any new fixes for all vendor products we support. This is a manual process which is time consuming. Additionally the information requested for compliance doesn't exactly match up with what we can ret...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration