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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.

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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Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Date Prompts should be empty as default

the date prompts have as default value the current date.The problem ist, that when the date prompt is an optional prompt, than the user must always clear the date prompt, otherwise the value (current date) whould be used as filter.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open a URL in a separate tab when pressing and holding CTRL key

There is no convenient way to open a URL in a new browser tab in Cognos 11, for example opening a report in Authoring in a new tab.Pressing and holding CTRL and clicking on a URL is commonly used for opening a URL in a new tab. Not so in Cognos 11...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Geographic Location properties for township, section, range, quarter when setting representation to Goegraphic

Currently when you load a file, create a date module from a file or do an exploration from a file you can't selection the Township, range, section or quarter as a geographic representation. So if I want to show the top producing oil and/or gas w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for mass application and management of data rules

We would like better facilities for managing large numbers of data rules. Think hundreds to thousands.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics content toggle menu functionality ehancement

The normal behavior in cognos analytics is if you run a report the report output shows up in the drop menu, then you can toggle away or close it if you don't need it anymore. That's fine except when you want to run the same report multiple times w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copied objects should not retain the "Created" and "Modified" dates of the object it's copied from

Copied objects retain the "Created" and "Modified" date of the object from which they are copied. Please change this so these dates default to the current date/time when the object is created (copied). This would be more meaningful and helpful. Th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration