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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Remove "Convert All Books to Snapshots”

Remove from the Planning analytics menu Snapshot > “Convert All Books to Snapshots” At this point I would call it a Should Have (Almost Must Have. I keep hitting it because it is so close to the option above it)
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Optim Archive Server to see NAS mounted storage on Windows implementations to put archive files to

Description: When running the Optim Archive Application as a Service and running an archive job on the Server, the tool returns an error that it cannot see the NAS drive destination which the archive job is suppose to write to. When running the ar...
over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Command Center: Monitoring form input progress at REPO level

The company uses the command center in Cognos Controller to monitor the form input status and progress by entity during the closing process. If input is done in a form, the form status changes from ‘missing' to ‘ reported'. However, the form s...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Changed movement-logic in Data Entry on Investment account

Data Entry Form for Balance Sheet: --> Investments in Group Companies (Shareholding Register) If you want to open the shareholding Register within your Opening Balance Account, you´ll see all the Investments that have been done up to the Perio...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change layout in Reconcile Intercompany

1. Users suggest that there shall be some kind of favorites/personal setting with selections, that can be saved and reused during another closing or a possibility to have a selection list saved in own excel sheet (e.g. list of reports), and copy t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

PAC - RFB in SDK pages doesn't select all files from multiple folders

Remote File Browse doesn't select all files from multiple folders. Consider custom SDK page like this one for example:http:///platform/service/pageFactoryAction.action?serviceId=formelements&embed=null# To reproduce: Select two files from a fo...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Externalize performance t...

I have a performance trace running requesting IFCIDS 58 (END), 59 (FETCH), 65(OPEN), 66(CLOSE). I run the following Cobol program: ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. C011MAIN. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 FILLER PIC X(12)...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open Remote Job Consoles inoperative after PAC upgrade

Any active Remote Job Consoles are not accessible after a PAC upgrade. We know how to clear the issue with closing the console via PAC and removing the users related information in the /pac/gui/work and /pac/gui/work.vnc directories and killing al...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Direct entry of "Contribution Version" when layouting reports

When a report in Cognos Controller is being created there is the possibilty to insert the "Contribution Version" either in the row or the column definition. The entry of the "Contribution Version" has to be done via a dropdown menu. There is no di...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration