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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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Data Module Export/Import - Distribution

We need the ability to distribute a data module to our client base where the database name it references may change from what we have developed the data module against. This will most likely happen in a multitenant, cloud environment, but could ha...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dbexport/dbimport validate *_LOCALE vars before accessing data files

When working with UTF8 database, DB_LOCALE and CLIENT_LOCALE are required to interact correctly with the databases. This RFE is about issuing a warning to the DBA when doing a dbexport/dbimport with CLIENT_LOCALE unset, especially when DB_LOCALE i...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB size status and monitoring via Console

Hi Team, We can see DB size in Report section, but when we generate report it generates multiple .html files which can be tough for management to review it. We are looking for DB size report in one excel sheet as below for multiple databases and a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding calculated as option to Active report "Summarize in output"

Active report with COL1, COL2, COL3 where COL3 is COL2/COL1. When using default summary calculation totals er calculated correct, but when changing to summarize in output the calculation options does not include an option for "calculated" hence ma...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Open the book with the comment

When I open a book and someone else is editing that book, I want to see a message that the book is being edited. (When I edit a book and want to save it, I notice when someone else opens and edits the same book at the same time)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration