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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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Display the number of active users logged on

It would be beneficial if the total number of users logged on to Controller is displayed in the function View Active Users. Today we have to count the number of users manually and it´s quite time consuming if there are more than 150 users logged ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Page settings for notifications

Please add the ability for displaying a limited number of rows of notifications as set by the administrators. Further notifications can be accessed by a Next and or Back link to load the next set of messages, or to go back to the previous set. Thi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX Task Pane Improve Structure

The Task Pane in Planning Analytics for Excel is too busy looking and should be streamlined. It would be nice to group related content into folders - similar to the Applications folder in Perspectives. Currently, users are overwhelmed by the amoun...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH-Ability to set dynamic default prompt value

Client wishes to be able to set a dynamical default selection for his prompts. For Example a Month prompt that by default displays the current month.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Error correcting algorithm for invalid members

Building a set for a view in PAW, the system tries to record the parent of a selected member whenever it can with a MUN of the format “PARENT^ELEMENT” (in order to be make the drill-up function available). However our end-user won’t make the diffe...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Catalog filter to Display Duplicate Assets

Original title: Display Duplicate Assets in publish job logs. Original Description: When viewing the logs for a metadata publish job in IKC, the number of duplicate assets is displayed, but the assets themselves are not. It would be useful to know...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Display logical names of columns in the overview of data assets in a catalog.

The Data Assets screen in the catalog has a list of columns, with column descriptions and business terms, and I would like to be able to display the logical names there in a separate box. I proposed the idea of using the description or business te...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Store the "Case Close Status" used to close a case within the case instead of reading it from the current Case close table

The "fraud status" entries in the case history table seems to draw the current fraud status assigned to a case close code and not the one that was valid when the case was actually closed (perhaps it isnt stored at all in the case). So when changin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Display Logged In User Info in Home App Bar

Show the name of the logged in user in the Home App Bar instead of just a "person" icon.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Missing format in Filter

A list report has been created. Filtered to a numeric field ([paragraph (query)]. [Time]. [Year] = 2013).The filter text has been displayed.The value is displayed with thousands separators.• For the query element [Paragraph (Query)]. [Time]. [Ye...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration