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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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Improve Error Descriptions

Improve Error Descriptions Current error message are very generic and it is hard to understand what exactly the failure is looking at the logs Improve on the error reporting for users to understand the error without enabling traces to understand t...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Permission to create in the database

At the end of the Content Store configuration it tests the permission to create tables. We have created the tables manually , the permission to create tables is not necessary.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Links suppress Border

When add Report Links in Active Report, Can we delete/hide Border of iFrame.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumers, have the Icon to Delete a Report in Team Content, even if they don't have permissions do to so.

Even when removing execute permissions form a consumer to run a report, the ellipses drop down shows Delete icon in Team Content. If they click on it, it says they don't have permission, they should not see the option.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM db2 UDB . total number of standby supported in HADR needs to increase it from 3 to more value like datagaurad in oracle

Currently HADR setup support maximum 4 standby including one principle . Why can't it goes like data gaurd in Oracle which support 30 standby
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics administration with different TM1 database access for different administrators

For clients with multiple TM1 databases there is now way to split responsibility for those between different administrators. This means an administrator manage all TM1 databases on the same environment in Planning Analytics administration. There i...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration