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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Hide Attributes Prefixed with }

Hide all attributes starting with the curly bracket "}" from the Subset Editor, also making it a control object (similar to other control cubes, dimensions, processes, views, subsets).
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Request for RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL REFERENCE with SAMPLE to update RTS TOTALROWS

Recovery to PIT or to current, and non-standard recovery methods such as DSN1COPY or DF/SMS dataset DUMP/RESTORE from flashcopy backups can leave TOTALROWS set to 0, NULL or invalid values. Trying to run something like a REBUILD index relies on TO...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Confirmation of status using PAW buttons with TI

In version 39 the possibility to use PAW buttons to run TI processes is introduced. This works fine, but unfortunately no confirmation of a successful execution of the process is provided. You can start the process and that's all you see. It shoul...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

enhance smf records for reporting secure connections

When just beginning to implement secure db2 ports (sometimes called encryption in-flight), it is helpful to report on the performance of queries that are secure vs queries that are non-secure. This can help us to fully tune our applications for th...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add Websphere Application Server Network Deployment support for Cognos 11

Currently Cognos Analytics 11 does not support any Application Server other then the included Websphere Liberty Profile.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Select All" Filter Limitation in Reports

Add the option to Select All after searching for values in a Reports filter or remove the limitation when trying to shift-click a large data set.The limitation seems like a bug, but support from case number TS000955204 said to open a RFE to resolve.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Show text size next to Simple String Text fields on Loss Event Entry application

Users who submit Events/Incidents via the Loss Event Entry Application need to provide a description of what caused the event and the field that absorbs this information in OpenPages is a Simple Text field (4000 bytes) only. It would be good if th...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add the "Set Pack or module option" for Dashboard as it exists for reports

It would be very useful for us if Dashboards could have the same relinking (Pack or Module) option that exists for Reports. Thank you.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted