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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.

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Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Search result to be highlighted

Problem statement/pain point: Search with search bar in the main panel, return relevant asset list. But search does not provide information on where the search term hit the asset or the asset's metadata(e.g.asset name, description…). No workaroun...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to Freeze Sections in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

We created large dashboards in CA11 as part of our organization requirement, giving the users the ability to interact with multiple dimensions inside the same dashboard. Because of multiple visualizations inside the dashboard, users have to scroll...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through from Report to Dashboard

It would be good if we could drill through from a report to a Dashboard. If people from the business are seeing an exception, on a predefined report, that needs further analyses they should be able to pass prompts trough to a dashboard where they ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration