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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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New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

#cpfield Automatic saving is executed every 1 or 2 seconds in the UI of Cognos Dashboards, and properties cannot be edited.

Automatic saving is executed every 1 or 2 seconds in the UI of Cognos Dashboards, and properties cannot be edited. We would like to fix this Problem.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

Make the importing of Agent (Event) schedules consistent with schedules for reports/jobs

In Cognos 10, if you do not select the option to Include Schedules in an Export, the Import would not touch existing schedules. In Cognos 11.x, if you do not select the Include Schedules option in an Export, the Import will DELETE an existing sche...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CPO interactive enhancement to write or query solution

CPO interactive misses some very useful command to simply query one solution value for a given variable with its name (allowing wildcards to display more variables) Today, the only way we can query a solution is through display solution command th...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

Linked actuality currency conversion also for Group Journals

Currently Currency-conversion and consolidation is not done for Group-journals, stored on GAC's. In the old consolidation model this was not possible, in NYKOMO this should be possible
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Use of SYSTEMPL instead of templates in Db2 tables/ISPF profile

We would like to be able to use the SYSTEMPL data set in Admin instead of having to create entries in Db2 tables/ISPF profile. We use templates and would like be sure that the same templates are used everywhere. This is supported in AOC but not in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

AOC should support template switching

We use templates that allocate image copy to disk when the size is below 300 MB and then switch to another template allocating to tape when larger. AOC does not support this.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CSV Output with Double Quotation

Need Double Quotation when the users output through CSV from Cognos Analytics. They used to customize but they are now have to use standard feature, and cannot customize, however they request the new feature.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alcura

Password protect Excel outputs
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search for "pacakges" is needed in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos 11 users can search for 'Reports, Folders, Dashboards, Data, Explorations, Notebook and other' but one of the most important objects "packages" is not on the search list. It is often "how many packages are in ...... cognos environment" b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists