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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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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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non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Using the TEST function, Need to Filter by Index Name or Table Name

Looking to convert an NPI to DPSI. Need a way to compare access paths of all SQLs that are currently using the NPI to What-if the NPI was not there (aka Virtual Index Delete). The TEST function (Dynamic Explain) currently does not allow filtering ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Publish multiple FM packages at once

There can be multiple packages in a Framework Manager model. If you want to publish several packages you have to to this sequentially. A possibility to mark several packages and publish them at once is needed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to edit and copy/paste in ignores and excludes as there is for masks.

The compare masks screen has functionality to edit (panelid ADB2C21 and option E goes to ADB2EDIT). Within edit session, I can copy and then swap to another screen which has another environment mask open then paste, make changes, and save. All sav...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard

Cognos Analytics - Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard. In Report, When values in chart get over 5 digits, they become to small and hard to see. Especially in Pie Chart. The size of the chart also shrinks when changing "La...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add export to Excel/PDF option when you run drill-through report from the Cognos dashboard which added to user profile

When run drill-through report from Cognos dashboard using Cognos environtment, you have an option to download data to different format. If Cognos dashboard added to user profile dashboard, then this opportunity is missed. We found workaround but i...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

In Dashboards provide Buttons for custom Navigation between tabs and possible other Actions

The User experience in a Multi Tab dashboard can be much improved with on screen buttons rather than tab names. This would provide for a more tailored and user/company specific design (only if required). Too often a prepared design (wireframe or s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration