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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

License Manager enables administrator to change check-license-interval

Currently, I think SPSS Modeler are using the OEM functionality to manage the number of licenses. However, since the license check interval is fixed (approximately every 5 minutes), when someone finishes using SPSS Modeler, the license is not rele...
7 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted
511 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Restrict access to WSDL

We are using web services inside IPM and we managed to restrict access to authenticated users that means users with an active account defined within IPM. But we didn't success in restricting access to wsdl file that stay public and may cause a sec...
8 days ago in Product Master 0 Submitted

Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Backup in V12 - allow to exclude files/folders

In Planning Analytics V12, when an administrator requests a backup, it includes all server files, as well as the contents of File Space (which can be browsed using File Explorer).However, this area can contain many files that are not required to b...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Templates for reports cannot be used unless they are saved under the " Templates " folder in Team Content in Cognos Analytics on Cloud on Demand

Due to the limitations of Cognos Analytics on Cloud on-demand environments, users can not modify Team Content files such as Samples and Templates. Once a report template is created and saved as a template, performing modification on it doesn't cha...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Bidirectional SharePoint Connector for DataStage in IBM Cloud Pak for Data

This proposal aims to develop a native bidirectional connector between Microsoft SharePoint and DataStage within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.The connector should allow users to extract and send data (read and write operations) from and to SharePoint li...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support .TXT files for text extraction

In the overall messaging of watsonx.data Premium for unstructured data, we discuss ingestion of various unstructured documents, which includes word/PPT/PDF and .TXT files. From a unstructured data integration standpoint, .TXT files can be ingested...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enable the storage and retrieval of VIEW-Formats in native (legacy) and MDX-Views in Explorations in PAfE and PAW

In TM1 Server Explorer/Cube Viewer a user, modeler or administrator was capable of saving and retrieving individual view-formats per view, independent of the format assigned in the last dimension of the cube. This format was stored in the ID 375 o...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted