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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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Disable email options for specific group

Disabled email options for specific group
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Frozen crosstab columns and rows in Cognos reports as a default

In current Cognos Analytics versions it is possible to freeze crosstab columns and rows in reports by right-clicking them. Could it be possible to add report feature that you could set crosstab columns and rows as frozen already when designing rep...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

It should be possible to use subsets in DBRW formulas in PAX

It is possible to have a subset reference in DBRW formula in Perspectives, the formula is then using the total for all subset elements. This idea has not been implemented in PAX. If the user upgrades to the new version of PA and wants to use exist...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

No RECP state after abnormal termination with LOAD RESUME YES and no rows loaded

MR0729057126 DBDB2D/N04004
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search results remain on the screen

In home screen, when client select "Team Contents Folder" and search the report, the result is displayed. Once we go to another screen and return to the report selection screen again, the search results are displayed. At that time, we want to be a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Validation Field [$System Fields:Date Last Modified$]

I would like to create a calculation validation that uses Date Last Modified but it's not an available field. The use case is being able to reference this date to auto set a status to "Dormant" based off this date.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration