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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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Run report by default instead of showing saved output

In Cognos Analytics we often encounter the situation where there is a saved output for a report that gets displayed instead of runnning the report. Users who are not savvy do not realize this is happening and they end up using very old output thin...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBMCloud - Initiate Triggers following Cube Deployment and/or seeing a Flag File

since customer has no visibility on the cube deployment process, customer expects IBMCloud to handle end to end deployment and schedule/job execution process.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable use of package-based filters employing macros in data modules

There are already several RFEs submitted that request the ability to use package query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards. The purpose of this request is to extend those in two ways. 1. We would like to be able to use query subjects contain...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Lifecycle Manager support for SSO and related authentication

Cognos LifeCycle Manager is a very useful tool for upgrade projects. But as of now it does not support SSO and related authentication challenges. But most of the implementations happens with SSO and/or secured protocols. It will help during upgrad...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WLM should support IDLE timeout threshold for activity.

WLM supports connection IDLE timeout threshold with CONNECTIONIDLETIME. Our customer would like to have IDLE timeout threshold for SQL statement activity within a connection with fine granularity. They periodically issue mon_get_activity and mon_g...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Using Pins within Stories

One way to create a story is to use pins - going into a dashboard and pinning a visualization - which then becomes part of "My Pins" within the story. What would be nice is for an administrator to be able to create a Global Pin or denote an existi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FTM for Swift Services to support Universal Tablespace Partition by growth.

We would like FTM for Swift Services to support Universal Tablespace Partition by growth for Audit Tables.
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Auto Start Play Stories

My company has several TV monitors throughout our factory floor we use display Cognos dashboards with performance metrics. We would like to use stories to show more information across multiple slides. One pain point preventing us from implementing...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lineage functionality for Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Analytics should have the functionality to present data lineage for packages/data models based on Dynamic Cubes.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for an Informix CSDK port for MAC OS M1 processor

Is Informix CSDK 4.1x or 4.5x ported for MAC OS M1 processor? Seems like the last one available is x86_64 4.10 and I saw someone asking for a port in Dec 2021 with no response. Maybe there are some specific steps to run as a workaround using the e...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration