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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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Report options like "Double-click on member action" should be a personal preference.

While authoring a report it is possible to set some options. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_set_options.html). These options are saved in the browser cookies. The...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing option to set globally the default portal action on objects like reports and report views

We want to be able to switch globally the default option on objects like reports and report views to "run the report" instead of "view most recent report" under object advanced properties tab.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Commit data from PAfE (quick Report) from all the sheets at one time (Provided that a workbook contains more sheets)

Commit data from PAfE (quick Report) from all the sheets at one time (Provided that a workbook contains more sheets)
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedAvgUnique

ConsolidatedAvgUnique( 0, unique-along-dimension-name, cube-name,elem_1, elem_2, . . . ); ConsolidatedAvgUnique calculates the average value of the unique elements for which data points actually exist for the specified consolidation. The unique el...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show path of selected group within Cognos Namespace

Hopefully this is already planned for a future release -- but within Cognos 11, there is a difference when looking at groups/roles within the Administration Console/Security tab vs using the Manage/Accounts. Let's include all of the functionality ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Controls to be supported in Prompt Pages

We provide Cognos to our clients and this includes standard reporting templates. Our DQM solution uses a tree prompt against a relational package. The Java takes the tree nodes and converts the syntax to work with a relational filter. Unfortunatel...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS in future releases of DB2.

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS. This would be beneficial to us and our CPU consumption and costs. Has a request been made already to allow ZIIP processing for DB2 via Batch? H...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column Chart: independent column padding setting when the color field is used

When using the column chart with members in the color field, it would be helpful to add the option to use an independent setting for column padding (as now) and column color padding (this proposition). That would allow to set the padding of color ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Print option is not available in OP8.1 as it was in OP7.2

Earlier in OP7.2 version of OpenPages there was print button for records which used to let users print the record in pdf format. In OP8.1 version, due to TFUI , print option is not available anymore. As per our IBM contact, the team mentioned this...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration