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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Self service for Top or Bottom function

The standard selection for the "Top or Bottom" function in the report studio, is just the KPI of the crosstab.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When dropping table retain OBID for when recreating that same table

Any account that utilizes QREP should want this option of retaining OBID
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard- Filter: Filter range option missing for dimensions

End users are unable to select a range of values while applying filter on certain dimensions.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enable Full Multitenancy features with Cognos Analytics UI

Currently the old Cognos Connection is required to use Multi-Tenancy features in Cognos Analytics. Customers want to have all features available using only the new Cognos Analytics UI.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow non-intrusive RENAME of Constraint Names

Allow for a non-intrusive RENAME of any type of CONSTRAINT name. Primary Key, Foreign Key, CHECK and UNIQUE Constraint names should be available for RENAME. Currently, changing Constraint names requires the Constraint to be dropped and re-created ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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 )
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems the same as in data module

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems as in data module
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration