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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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An option in Chart Properties in Report Studio that allows charts to autosize

Customer would like to have the percentage option available when resizing charts. In the Size & Overflow option that changes the size of the report the customer would like a percentage option that would make resizing easier and more universal ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Cognos install kits to include installation option with user defined backup location

This is an enhancement for future Cognos products install kits to have an installation option with user defined backup location. Installer kit in 10.2.x versions does not give users an option to define their own backup folder location during insta...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Function of row highlighting in list

Customer want a function of row highlighting function in list as well as current column body highlighting.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists