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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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Fields added to EXCLUDED FIELDS on an object should be removed from UI

Currently, fields that are not used or created by accident need to be removed from each profile and excluded from the schema. If you fully exclude a field from the reporting schema then it is still present in the UI but will throw errors to the us...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

"Analyst" Default role exchanged to "Consumer"

On Planning Analytics Workspace (on Premise) we would like to customize/change the Default role of PAW new users from "Analyst" to "Consumer" beforehand user takes access to the system.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Function to include upload file info such as modified date to a report

We need the ability to show when the upload file was created/modified in our data module for dashboard and reports. It is important for the report-users to know when the upload was refreshed. Other upload attributes such as owner and file name mig...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Lock an account for input in the account structure.

We would like the option to lock an account for input or import of data directly in the account structure. Account develops over time. Some accounts might not be valid to use over time. It might not be possible to merge these accounts, include the...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix/onbar in the list of VEEAM Enterprise Backup Solution supported platforms

VEEAM is a fast growing Enterprise Backup solution. As of today, Informix is not part of VEEAM's supported DBMS, but should be supported before decision makers choose other DBMS platforms.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Microsoft Office capability to import nested contents from Cognos dashboard reports to Excel - TS000938522

On Cognos Analytics for MSO add-in v11, layouts and formats of Imported Contents from Cognos list cross-tab reports or dashboards with nested contents, are changing in any Microsoft document. Formatted cells change fonts, Merged cells in Cognos ar...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Make Inline Guidance fields collapsible

Inline guidance fields can take up quite a lot of space on the screen. Ideally the user should be able collapse this down to avoid the view becoming too cluttered. Perhaps the Administrator can decide whether it should be collapsed by default.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Determine last modification of report specification (xml) by user

Currently it is possible to determine when the report was initially created (Created Date) and when the report or its settings as a whole were changed. The "Modified Date" changes as well when a report output version is being stored or by job exec...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to format PAW widget size in pixels / units in addition to %

I'd like to create a dashboard where some items, like images, are a fixed size rather than a % of parent. Please add ability to specify the size in some unit like pixels, inches etc. consistent with other web tools (like cognos analytics).
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration