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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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CA hyperlinks

The use of Hyperlinks in CA have changed compared to C10.xcertain URLs do not work, displaying a blank page.The user should be notified if the website they are attempting to access via HTML prevents the use of iframe.See details in the Use Case be...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Reading data from Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Need Datastage integration with Amazon SQS (simple queue service) to communicate JASON file
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add the column name to sqlcode -407

When there are many columns in the sql and there are many rows that affected by the sql, it is very difficult to found the problematic column.For example, if it is an INSERT statement with fullselect, or UPDATE statement that update many rows with...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

File based monitors

Client requirement is to make file limit checking. We can go with transaction limit, making number of days 0. It works, but it is impossible to make this monitor overrideable (tried changing risk error code with no effect). Also, next to suspendab...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, Data Item Nameing please remove the additional '_' in the naming standard

By default when creating a data module, Data Items have a underscore replaces a space between words. There are some instances where an underscore will be added after a data item name when there are no spaces. 'Number_' or 'Count_'. The reason I a...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Command to resolve in-place alters

Have a command "UPGRADE_IPA" which can be run against a table/fragment to resolve in-place alters. This should have an online option which utilizes small transactions.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration