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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 the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Callout/Highlight (add to Canvas) to have conditional formating

Callout/highlight (add to canvas) requires conditional formatting (text/ background) to display eg1 Green for positive or Red for Negative, 2 Green, Amber, Red to show the impact Sorry I could not find a name to describe this function in the IBM d...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to capture metadata for relationships

Currently the platform does not allow for the capture of customer / use case specific data about relationships. For example when a Risk is associated to a control we would like to be able to store information on its % coverage etc. Its important t...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, More and more customers are heading up to Azure with their on prem IBM environments. We get more questions of: Can we use Azure PAAS platform or Azure SQL Services for our IBM Cognos databases. Does IBM plan on investigate these services from ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Data Module - Possibility to join DC, PA cube, File and FM sources

Possibility create joins in Data module between different type of data sources. E.g. it is not possible to join two dynamic cubes on the fly or enrich Cube data with excel or to combine Planning analytics data to Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Please add buffering for LOBs

Please add buffering for LOBs
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Types / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration