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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add feature that would let a Cognos admin to request a user's credentials be refreshed

One logical...even likely...scenario is that a Cognos admin views the license usage and discovers that one of the license groups has more users assigned to it than are actually owned by the customer. After researching which user has been granted t...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Files Limits Configurable per user group

Within Cognos 11, you can identify a size limit per upload and a max size limit per user. However, if you modify these limits, you are affecting all users of the environment who can upload files. Ideally, it would be helpful for some users that be...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Purge Application Text Records from Deleted Views and Widgets

When you create a view or widget in the TFUI, each instance becomes an Application Text record. Once deleted, the Application Text record stays and becomes an orphan. As development continues, there should be a process (or script) to purge all orp...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Documentation about custom node dialog builder

need documentation about custom node dialog builder. When developing custom nodes with custom node dialog builder, variables such as modelerData and modelerDataModel (SPSS reserved words) are handled, but there is not much documentation on how to ...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Populate DSSIZE for ALL pagesets to simplify monitoring and avoiding pageset full conditions

The rules surrounding the maximum size for any given pageset have become more and more complicated over recent releases of Db2. This severely affects our ability to monitor for pageset full conditions, as while it is relatively straight forward to...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

crosstab freeze options

I am using crosstab a my report. Currently we can freeze column header on report by right clicking on output and click on Freeze Column & Row headings option. However requirement from user is that they want to have both freezed column and Row ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Lighter Weight db2fodc -hang

Db2 Support often asks customers to collect db2fodc -hang to investigate hang issues. This is an heavyweight command that causes severe impact to customers' workload. We need a lighter weight db2fodc -hang command that allows users to input an app...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration