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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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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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System maintained MQTs for BLU MPP

We use DB2 v10.5 DPF for a Warehouse Environment (40TB Data, ~9000 Users, 40 Tsd. Reports per day). We want to migrate the database to DB2 v11.1.1.1 BLU MPP with all tables column oriented. In this case we have checked the functionality for system...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Separate rule calculated cells vs security locked cells in cell styles for PAx

The current cell style "Locked - IBM Cognos" in PAx effects cells locked due to either rule calculation or security. Would like the ability to format cells that are not editable due to rule calculations differently then cells that are not editable...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Simplification and consistency of "Covert to" options in PAx

"Convert to Snapshot" in right click menu can be confused with "Convert To" option in PAx ribbon when then functionality is different. "Convert To" allows conversion to other types of reports while "Convert to Snapshot" saves values as static in t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide a default PLAN_TABLE and DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE

If we use the CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE special register more widely, we have to create either a PLAN_TABLE and a DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE or an ALIAS for each user. If we forget it, it doesn't work. So if there would be a default table for both, all ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Two Factor Authentication

Two Factor Authentication for Cognos.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add export to Excel/PDF option when you run drill-through report from the Cognos dashboard which added to user profile

When run drill-through report from Cognos dashboard using Cognos environtment, you have an option to download data to different format. If Cognos dashboard added to user profile dashboard, then this opportunity is missed. We found workaround but i...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Collapsible hierarchy prompt into new Dashboard

Tree prompt is a great way to explore and filter hierarchies, but the current hierarchy prompt does not function well with large hierarchies, because you can not collapse hierarchy branches. Please provide collapsible hierarchy prompt
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Classic IIDR server's STOP,ALL command process should enable the timeout function

In a customer's production environment STOP,ALL command was entered to a IMS target server but the termination process hung. After 80 minutes passed STOP,ALL,IMMEDIATE was entered and the server successfully terminated. (The incident is reported b...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Homepage Notifications/Logo Customization

Allow customization of the welcome page to include notifications to users about system uptime/downtime/batch process notifications, etc. Currently, we have several models which are connected to a single PAW production server, and we cannot provide...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration