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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Export Story Functionality

Need the ability to export a Story into PDF, PowerPoint, mp4 and/or a custom downloadable format.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record. sometime Bulk calculation fail or it fail for some particular record, Need option to OPA user to run such calculation on specific record. Currently option is too flip value and set it back.
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Open index endpoint for ODBC Data Connector

The current implementation of the ODBC Data Connector does not expose an open index ("/") endpoint for the API. When using an azure application gateway for routing, the gateway uses a health probe that by default query the index of the underlying ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Regular expressions in calculated fields

For some raw-data fields like res_req or effective_res_req in the job_acct index, it is right now not possible to extract single parameters like the mem-parameter in the rusage section. This could be achieved by supporting regular expressions (reg...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Planned for future release

Enabling Restrict on Drop clause logic in create table command for db2 LUW

There is a feature called "Restrict on Drop" that should be used by the database designers while creating a table for the db2 LUW database 1) If a database designer uses this "Restrict on Drop" clause for the creation of the table then the tabl...
over 5 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

Scheduling Reports

Now you have the possibility to schedule one report with one schedule rule. My suggestions is to create a multiple schedule for one report. My suggestion to resolve this problem is with an option of multiple schedules and with this two options: - ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

PAW - dynamic images

There is a PAW book with Selector and Image, and URLs stored as the dimension attribute. It would be great to be able synchronize the image widget with the selector. So when the client clicks on the element in the Selector, the URL gets passed to ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration