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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add options to Run and Save after selecting "Try It" when editing a Data Module

When editing a Data Module, after selecting "Try It", there is no option for Run options, View, Run, or Save. As it is now, you have to save the Data Module, then from the Welcome screen, select Edit Report from the action menu.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View Checked out attributes from single edit screen, for users who do not have access to the collaboration area where the item is checked out.

Customer needs the ability to view Checked out attributes from single edit screen, for users who do not have access to the collaboration area where the item is checked out. At present, if an item is checked out to a collaboration area where the lo...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

OOTB Search is triggered second time on returning to grid view from single edit View

While using OOTB search in day-to-day product enrichment process, users are facing difficulty as search is being triggered multiple times by Product. Below is the use case which users will be performing in Production on daily basis. In Production ...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Editable cells indicated by using color styles for PA Views in the crosstab widget on the PAW or ease of use data entry

Interaction - editable cells indicated using color styles for PA views - In current deployments (TM1 classis with websheets), users are used to see gray cells if no input is possible on the cell. For example, because the plan version is locked for...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stop Row element "Column Width" from auto-sizing on any change in Cube Viewer in Workbench

Currently, whenever you are working with a Cube View in Workbench in PAW, if you re-size the column width of the row elements (to show a longer element name/alias for example), if you then make a change to any value within the view, or resize the ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

PAW Action Button item box for Lists is too small

When you link a parameter to a List control type, the control detail field is used to capture the items to be displayed in the list. To see or edit the items you need to copy and paste outside of PAW to Notepad or similar.For example, a short list...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration