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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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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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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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Managing and administering to Schedules in Cognos Administration console

We are having challenges managing the number of schedules that exist in our environment. We have some questions around the management and administraiton of schedules. If these possibilities do not exist via advanced configuration parameters we wou...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Web Client and 'columns for journals'

The Controller Web Client is currently enabled for 'standard' journal treatment only, it is not currently compatible with 'journals as columns', as defined within submission set up.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Security Auditing and Reporting for Cognos BI CAM - SOX Compliance

Issue: not able to audit details of changes made to security in BI CAM Request: System logs and reports on detailed activities of an action. Reason: We need the detail log level in order to be compliant with our internal CN SOX compliance requirem...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PMR 13167,7TD,000: Refreshing only the prompts and not the whole report page

We have few pick-list cascaded prompts on the report page. Whenever user selects these prompts, and click submit, the whole report page with data gets refreshed along with the cascaded prompt values. We need only the cascaded prompt values to be r...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Round DOUBLE when number too small instead of returning error SQL0405N

SAS calculations can return DOUBLE values smaller than Sailfish can store in a DOUBLE data type. When a SAS dataset containing one of these values is written to Sailfish, the default datatype is DOUBLE and an error, SQL0405N, is returned. Sailfis...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Event Studio Create Explicit Joins for Event Condition

In event Studio, when defining an event condition, I would like the ability to explicitly define joins in an event condition using package objects much like we can do in Report Studio. Also, I would like the ability to drop in custom SQL much like...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Relate underlying assets to the connection

Capture not only metadata on object level (say, a DB table), but on DB schema level, to preserve understanding of connections between the tables, so that users may identify connected metadata objects based on the underlying DB schema
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration