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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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Insert spacings into list/table visualizations for readability

Our client requested the following functionality in PA Workspace: Insert empty Columns/Rows as placeholder for readability into exploration/list/table visualizations. We managed to insert some via basic calculations and formatting the respective ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Invoke the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) for ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events

Currently the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) will not be invoked for all ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events. For instance the only time that FODC_AppErr% events will invoke the db2cos script is when the condition happens on a sub-agent...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Allow Excel to recognise the blank zero format from PA

Format c:#,##0_);(#,##0);returns error when in returned in PAX and used in Excel calculation Workaround use c:#,##0_);(#,##0);0
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Value prompt dash line

The default first two lines - header section and dash line. Remove dash line and instead replace 'All' in the second line
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for scripting of DataStage environment variable export.

Hi, This is a enhancement request to facilitate the scripting of the export of DataStage environment variables to a file. This operation can be manually executed using the DataStage Administrator client but I cannot find an equivalent command whic...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improper error handling

Ineffective error handling in application exposes internal application information to application users, which can help the enumeration of application components by an attacker. Impact Any leakage of internal application information may provide de...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration