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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Possibility to use custom fonts in Cognos Analytics On Demand

Many times customers want to customize report look and feel to corporate standard. Fonts are one part of that. At the moment in Cognos Analytics On Demand there is no possibility to load custom fonts that corporate is using.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Documentation for admin features

When modifying the features in the admin panel for different userids/groups, there is no way to understand what the effects are on all the areas of the different features. There are more than 1100 of them.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A New Parameter for TM1 URL API for Websheets: specifying sheetname in URL to reference target sheet (not just target book)

With TM1 URL API, in addition to specifying the workbook(excel file name), it would be very beneficial to specify the sheet name that the URL should direct to. This feature could be used in various cases where there are multiple sheets in a book: ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create and maintain Metric cubes from Workspace

It was mentioned on the Designing Workspace UIs in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace event on 29/10/2020 that the Metric chart will be added back into workspace after it was removed for the Cognos Analytics charting engine. If Metrics are coming ba...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Please develop a tool to real time monitor BB1RMID

Dear DB2 for Z developers, Our critical banking client got to know there is a severe storage leak issue reported on the DB2 V12. It's addressed on the APAR PH45580 already. Meanwhile, however, the client still wants us to develop a tool which coul...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

hiding the left bar in PAW for end users

We want to hide by default left bar for end users in paw application. Please refer the screenshot for better understanding
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration