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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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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Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review
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Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support Pre-Cacheing of MDX Views via ViewConstruct

Currently MDX views are not supported in the ViewConstruct function. Therefore there is no way to pre-cache content that is needed to render explorations and other types of PAW content. This leads to a slow user experience. This issue is made wors...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release