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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide End to End Latency at a level that is more granular than seconds

The End-to-End Latency metric value has a unit of seconds. Such granularity makes it difficult to determine the benefits/impacts of tuning efforts and configuration changes as well as any potential impacts during performance testing. All database ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

OAuth support in exposed web services

Add OAuth as a supported authentication when exposing datastage jobs as web services through the IDS
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Improve performance on multifact query on an informix database

We make Cognos reports on multifacts creating multifact queries with full outer join. To keep the query execution time low, we need absolutely the enhancement/fix be implemented in the next informix fixpack 12.10. It is unacceptable when the compe...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration