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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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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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Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Send a mail to users remember their expiration date password

It would be necessary for MWS to send an email to users when their password was close to expiring and thus they could be proactive in changing it without the need for a reset by the Administrator. This procedure exists now in Integration Server Th...
11 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics content toggle menu functionality ehancement

The normal behavior in cognos analytics is if you run a report the report output shows up in the drop menu, then you can toggle away or close it if you don't need it anymore. That's fine except when you want to run the same report multiple times w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control User Guidance with another field

The User Guidance can be controlled using a Task View override in a workflow - that is great. But when the object is outside a workflow i.e. (Start -for manual start workflows, End - which could have multiple states [closed, rejected, cancelled et...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Require EGO RestAPI to close host via automation

As we discussed earlier on our call, we are searching for a method to provide some automation for our Spectrum environments. Ideally, this type of action would be supported by an API level interface, but the available commands for host management ...
11 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 2 Submitted

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Discovery comprehensive handling of domain-specific dictionaries

Discovery is being positioned as replacement for R&R yet search (and not even WKS-based enrichment) cannot handle a comprehensive handling of domain-specific language, such as technical support. In R&R this was achieved by direct access to...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

"Audit Close Helper" should display which fields are necessary in order to close the audit.

"Audit Close Helper" should display which fields are necessary in order to close the audit.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Report retains report options from session to session

Report options - Automatic group and summary behavior for lists remaining off, but the Delete unreferenced query objects and Enable guided report layout get turned back on after closing session. Visual Aids - Show Hidden Objects turns off after ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration