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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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Ability to View the User Who Checked Out the File in Task and Grid Views

In a collaborative environment, where multiple users are working on the same file, knowing who is actively working on or has "checked out" a file is crucial for effective teamwork and coordination. Here's an elaboration on why tracking this inform...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

AI Assistant should be applied to user work flow, not just data

The AI assistant should be able to look at what a user is commonly doing within Cognos and suggest better ways of doing it. It should work with the user to set up these suggestions. Cognos is a complicated product, and users don't often use it the...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add Last Modified By field to PAW Books and Reports

Currently PAW will show the following details for a book/folder/etc. within Reports and Analysis: Name, Location, Type, and Last Modified In order to track the saved changes to a workbook we would like the ability to have a field where we can togg...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

PAW Welcome page folders layout sort

Entering the PAW Welcome page after login, all the Folders and/or Workbooks are defaulted to sort by Last Modified. This means each time a user logs in, folders/books are all moved around.Please allow us to set a default to sort by A-Z. This allow...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Dataset Date Refreshed property

Hi, can the refreshed date of a dataset be pulled into the data module so it can be displayed in reports or dashboards, so users know how current their data is? Similar to CubeDataUpdatedOn () for olap sources. We'd like to display the last refres...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide export functionality to select other user info to be displayed in export, for example, to show email address or first name and last name instead UserID?

Business users will be able to identify quickly an easily who are the owner, assignee or user that has an specific role just into the record export. In this moment are able to see the user name (UserID) only, so a user should investigate the first...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

LastUpdated property in TM1 REST API: most recent processes/dimensions/...

I have often a need to sort processes by last updated time. For instance, from DEV to PROD, I only need to get the processes updated in let's say, the current month. Which processes are more recent: I don't need to push processes from server A to ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Bar Charts in PAW, positive and negative values in differenct colors

It would be great to have the option to choose different colores for positive and negative numbers in bar charts. An example is to show variance in % of plan vs. last years actuals in a bar chart. Positive variances could be show in green, negativ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration