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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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Override Task View on End Stage

The workflow now has a new feature to override Task Views (read only fields, guidance etc) but this seems to be missing from the End Stage. The End Stage almost always needs to be overridden as many fields become Read Only. This was originally rai...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Securing Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

In Case Management, allow visibility of fired rules for only the mandator level they fired in.

Currently, in a Case all rules that fired will be shown in that case, even if another case class was raised by the same or other rules firing at the same time. Therefore, if there are sensitive rules from 1 department firing, these would be visibl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Database

Provide official support for the following Microsoft Azure solutions. 1. Azure SQL Datwarehouse as a DQM data sourcehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ 2. Azure SQL Database as a content store database.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for clauses of aggregate functions in DQM

In 10.2.1 FP3 DQM added the support for aggregate functions (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660309. Specially the listagg function is of concern. The listagg function on DB2 has a specific within group clause, that is used for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add start/completion times to My Activities (Past Activities)

Now that the My Activities option has been added back to Cognos Analytics, some additional options would make the tool a little more useful. When viewing My Activities and looking at Past Activities, can the ability to view the start/completion of...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Freely Move Legends on Visuals (Not specific locations)

Users need the ability to freely move the legend to maximize space when building a dashboards. The do not like being restricted to (top, bottom, left, right) as sometimes there are more ideal legend positions that help to maximize information dens...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release