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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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Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

In My schedules and subscriptions, under Past, give the user more information to troubleshoot a failure

In My schedules and subscriptions, under the Past view, for failures the only information provided to the user is the:-entry name-request time-status (Testing failed or Failed in R8 and R9 respectively) This is not enough information for an end us...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Show Tabs on Dashboard when set to off, shouldn't show this tab

In CA 11.1.1 dashboards the single dashboard was removed and the tab dashboard got a tabs property to turn the tab on or off. When you turn the tab off, the All Filter and This Tab filters show. It doesn't make sense to show a this tab filters whe...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to download the default welcome page / logon page for modification

Customer doesn't want to develop own welcome page and logon page as well as modify any samples. The request is to be able to download the default one, modify and upload. Either replace the existing one or upload a new name.We know https://www.ibm....
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Simplify CDC Owner Password Change for Oracle Target

We are requesting a simplified method of changing the CDC owner password for an Oracle target instance. Rather than having to reconfigure the CDC instance on Linux using the dmconfigurets we would like a command line password change. For example, ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

A way to automate user und group management in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a way to automate the user und group management in PAW. Regarding the export of this data, please make a trigger available from outside, e.g. via an API or via a shell-script.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

A better overview of users and groups in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a better overview of users and groups in PAW. Currently it is hard to keep track if you have hundreds of users. E.g., there is no way to find users without groups.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists