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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Improve readahead performance statistic reporting

Since the improved readahead code was established, onstat -p and the associated SMI tables no longer report all readahead pages nor all usage of those pages so that it is impossible to monitor the efficiency of readahead and so be able to determin...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web support for non-stable networks

In this age of the pandemic, more people are working from home, and are thus connected via networks that are not 100% stable. In Controller Web you tend to get an error message if the websock communication is broken, and then you will have to relo...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Version Control

Version control was a great feature, but people who use this UI aren't developers and they generally don't know they needed a back up until they make a mistake they don't know how to undo. I recommend that we keep snapshots of the client workspace...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

add permissions for a group or role in order to see a specific folder when logging in Cognos analytics

For example, folder A contains the reports and the folder B contains the package of the reports. We want that any users who belongs to a specific group or role come directly to folder A when connecting to Cognos via Gateway URI and that they are n...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expanding and collapsing a consolidated member in the Pafe Cube Viewer / Set Editor / Exploration view should always display all the children of the member

Please review the attached word doc, I don't seem to be able to post pictures here so it is a bit tough to explain the use case and detail. Currently if I expand a consolidation after previously hiding one of its children then the child remains hi...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAA and Stopping and management of TM1 Services

Many Business Partners would like to have the ability to stop and re-start TM1 services as part of managing their TM1 model.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration