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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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Support sorting results by more than 3 columns RFE 36055

QMF for Windows allows results to be sorted by up to 3 columns. We need QMF for Windows to support more than 3 sort columns. First choice would be to support sorting on an unlimited number of columns, similar to the ability to do this in Excel.
almost 11 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Task Focused UI: Saving filters

Please can we save filters again just like in Standard UI. This makes navigating a lot of information a lot easier. I would say this is important as a lot of our users have extremely high workload and simply do not have the time resource.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

In dashboards, global or "for this tab" filters based on different levels from same hierarchy should cascade

Users will get a much more intuitive experience if the filters in a dashboard would cascade if they are made of different levels in the same hierarchi.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Pod dependency for Openshift Topology view

CP4D pods should have the dependency information for Openshift Topology view. To support CP4D running on Openshift rapidly for customers, we tried to understand where is the cause and which pod should stop/start based on their dependency. ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

Help text for attributes

The current setup with a Help URL is not sufficient for our customers. It is to technical and not user friendly. Also it doesn't work with Firefox, Chrome or Safari. We prefer a mouse-over text or a i / ? button that you can click with a pop-up.
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Expand table visualizations on Dashboards when exporting to PDF

When exporting a Dashboard to a PDF users expect the option to have a table visualization to expand so all of the values are visible without a scrollbar, even if it expands on to additional pages.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Delivered

HostFactory returns hosts with pre-start service

Currently, hostfactory does not calculate with pre-started service. but can not return the hosts with pre-started services. This causes the huge waste. Our user case for an app 4 scheduled hosts up 24x7 with 40 pre-start services to meet our short...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

JSON datatype CDC replication support

Current IIDR CDC engine for PostgreSQL source does not support replicating json or jsonb datatype. This data types are getting popular within PostgreSQL and applications and customer began utilizing it for variety of reason. This feature will ...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Delivered