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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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Audit History tab to be changed/improved

Nestle would like to have feature to download Historic Data of all the changes (older than 1 year) using Export to Excel button. Nestle isn't looking to have all Historic Data present in UI. Nestle would like to have Audit History tab in Collabora...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 3 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support auto-assign Chinese term

Most of Chinese biggest customer is looking for the capability of auto-assign Chinese term. for example:ICBC, PAB, BOC. So their Business Analysis or Data Scientist can understand their data with business term. This is most key step they are looki...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

CDC Replicating DATA of VIEW from MAINFRAME to DISTRIBUTED

I have a requirement where we want to replicate data of a view to AIX side. I am attaching VIEW DDL is it possible with the help of CDC to achieve replication to AIX table View on mianframe is as follows CREATE VIEW PPSDB01.EXPR_PAL_ADDR AS SELECT...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill Through to Database Table - Excel Export

A Drill-Through in PAW to a database table will open a window where the user can export the data to a CSV file. An English user can open this file with Excel and all columns will end up in the right place. A non-English customer will need to conve...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM CA Cloud 11.1.7: Audit Package to include the items regarding the roles and/or groups an individual user is in

In the past, when we had Cognos on prem we could run SQL against the content store that would allow to see all the roles and/or groups of an individual user. Our Internal auditors need this information for compliance purpose. Per IBM Support case ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Supress metadata check in ODBC connector

The ODBC connector compares the metadata in DataStage with the metadata in the target system. When there is a mismatch in the metadata, warnings are issued in the DataStage Director log.Please add an option, so this check can be disabled for speci...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Filter Behavior in Interactive Mode

When filter is added to the layout in interactive mode, and filtered data set is returned, there is no visual indication that the additional filter was applied. Target application: Report Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Assign different icons to the different data points as per category on maps

Hi Team, There is enhancement requirement in cognos analytics version 12.0 dashboard to assign more icons as per category in maps. For example: If we have category column in our dataset that consists of different categories like type1,type2,type3 ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration