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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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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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MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Output Option

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to select the option "Keep this version">"E-mail Report" in the report output.There isn't this option in CA11.Doing subscriptions is not the same thing.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support for localized value separators in file upload

As self service BI is one of the major themes within CA 11, it should be easy for business users to easily upload any file (csv, xls) from their local environment into the CA11 on cloud, taking into account localized parameters from the customer: ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide visibility to Subscription Schedules and Executions

Subscription functionality in Cognos Analytics could be a powerful tool to allow users to tailor/schedule reports to fit their needs. However, there is no tool/report/etc. that provides visibility into the Subscriptions (and link to the actual rep...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A means of checking who are the current active users in qmf_for_websphere

Because otherwise how do you measure how many users in the organization are using this product ? In case they don't , you don't need to maintain it anymore (users might prefer using qmf for tso )
11 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Suppression option only available in legacy charts not in the new visualization

Suppression option only available in legacy charts not in the new visualization.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"include as link" option when choosing to "send report by email" should be configurable

We currently have our own custom authentication process to log into Cognos which is via SSO. If a user chooses to "include as link" when sending an email, the link will not bring up the report. Because we have our own product which we want the use...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Archecker table level restore utility does not compatible of handling Informix engine complex table schema clauses

Individual Table restoration 'archecker' utility only support simple schema definition contents as the schema file. However, Informix engine support complex clauses when setting up a table. E.g. When fragmenting a table based on interval based fra...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration