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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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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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Providing more easy way about mapping of Dimension Alias Name and Locale

When we use TM1 cube as BI data source,we need to map Dimension Alias Name and Locale in Meta Data Wizard of FWM.If there are many dimensions,it is hard to set up them.So the customer want more easy way for setting up it.(Importing from csv etc...)
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Place Name Notation in Japanese

About the map of the visualization object, we would like Places and Street names displayed on the map of Japan to be unified in Japanese notation.Currently, Japanese and English notation are mixed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable SAML based authentication for Watson Discovery Web Crawler

Hi - We would like to have IBM enable SAML based authentication for the Watson Discovery web crawler. Most of the web pages we'd like to crawl here at CVS are protected by SAML authentication... however, Watson Discovery does not support SAML auth...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Interactive Prompt screen for Manual Job Run

We have a few jobs set up to run manually. But the prompt page for the report in the job is not popping up and users have set prompt value going through edition options. That cause a few issue with security and we have re set up the job if the use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB stages should have options to disable "view data"

View Data options could be disabled for users. there should be an option for enabling /disabling view data based upon users/projects/jobs/environment variable level
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent User Licensing

Bring back the option for concurrent user licensing
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

2 Factor Authentication for Controller

IBM should implement the ability to use 2 factor authentication users logging into Controller server, client and FAP. This is to better secure Controller data. Also, TM1 (Planning Analytics)currently can not be secured with 2 factor authentication...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Performance indicator , same SQL should have same SQL ID in SQLTRACE

Customer care for two dimensions, session and SQL. Show those sessions and SQL that have most resources.The same SQL has different SQL ID if the same SQL execute in different session currently.so It's difficult to summary or group by the resource ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-tenant tuning,can stop and start the single tenant database

Isolate the resource(CPU,memory,chunk,lock) for the Multi-tenant database within the same instance, and can stop and start the single tenant database, can do the failover with Multi-tenant database, switch from one machine to another.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI When a conditional palette is created, their is a option to show conditional palette values as legend. The problem is that the legend appears two times, in the default legend and the conditi...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration