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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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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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Cognos Analytics Dashboard - Link Tabs together (Hyperlinks)

One of our customers needs to have this navigation scenario implemented in Cognos Analytics Dashboard: Ability to link Dashboard tabs together by having a hyperlink on a text item or box in a tab that a user can click on and that takes the user di...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Format label alignment on data player on dashboard and report

have a data player with many labels / filter items that it plays through (eg. each week for a year). I want to format the labels to be angled or something like that so that they are readable.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard Widgets to be controlled by groups

The average configuration of OpenPages sees a heavy usage of the Dashboard and currently if a dashboard is getting too cluttered you are forced to either train the user to remove the widgets themselves, or to create a new profile (a very heavy lif...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bar Charts in PAW, positive and negative values in differenct colors

It would be great to have the option to choose different colores for positive and negative numbers in bar charts. An example is to show variance in % of plan vs. last years actuals in a bar chart. Positive variances could be show in green, negativ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

MDX Subset does not update in paw

We have a model with various dynamic subsets, that uses MDX to read a text from a cell in a cube, and creates a subset based on that cell. The subsets, in general, works without any problems. The problem arise when we apply the subset in Planning ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Enable Theme Background Color Change on OpenPages Header

It would be really cool to allow a custom theme background color on the Header. I think someone mentioned this in the context of using the header for different types of alerting or bulletein e.g. making it red to draw attention. This would be the ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration