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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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Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add string data fileds TM1 cube support to Cognos BI

Cognos TM1 cube as a Cognos BI data source is supporting two types of data: numbers and strings. Number data fields works fine in Cognos BI, but there is no support for string data types. Please add string data types support in Cognos BI.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Report name & logo name (firm name) not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML report output, instead appears new report

Report name & logo name not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML while running the report , instead giving Report name as NEW REPORT with logo name it's not same case in cognos 10.2.2 steps: open in report in report studio run in cognso 1...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 encrypt data source connection setup

We are trying to setup DB2 encrypt data source Connection in Cognos R6 - R13 thru JDBC to support DQM . Currently Cognos r13 is not supporting and it's falling .Opened CASE to IBM and suggested to open REF for this functionality
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
about 3 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Tablespace reports rollforward pending after an HADR takeover report success

Banco do Brasil built a DR site and deployed a DB2 Purescale with HADR between these sites.HADR is in peer state. Then customer perform a takeover to switch HADR roles between sites.After the takeover finished successfully we tried to activate the...
over 9 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

No progress bar is displayed to track the progress of the upload on the Site Sync

Steps to Reproduce: Login as a Admin User. Go to open pages report section in the Dashboard. Click on Site Sync Utility Change the Target Entity and also change the value of any one of the objects. Click on the Submit Button. pop up is coming. Cli...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration