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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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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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Enabling the "XLS" option avaialble for reports along with "PDF" and "XLSX".

The user find it more efficient to format the data in XLS format for Cognos Reports.
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dashboard infographic - centred on page

A dashboard created with the infographic template is always left aligned. It pushes the dashboard upto the left hand edge of the browser window. This makes the dashboard look bad, it makes it look like it is wasting a lot of screen estate. Typical...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

New Authorization for SELECT all tables (DataSelect)

We use the DataAccess Auth to let Select. Insert, Update & Delete on all tables. But we'll appreciate also a new Auth for letting only Select on all tables. That's why we thought about the name DataSelect.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under 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

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Multilingual support for objects in Workspace

<As-Is> Currently, objects such as folders and books in Workspace are not compatible with multiple languages, so it is not possible to realize a mechanism that is compatible between Japanese-speaking users and English-speaking users. In ad...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CDC v11.4 source engine to support oracle ASM redundancy with failure group

In China some customer is using Oracle ASM redundancy solution with failure group which support 2 storage systems located at both machine rooms as storage redundancy and Disaster backup under oracle control. If one of machine room happens power do...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under 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

Ability to use query subjects with prompt macros in cognos analytics dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration