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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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Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics content toggle menu functionality ehancement

The normal behavior in cognos analytics is if you run a report the report output shows up in the drop menu, then you can toggle away or close it if you don't need it anymore. That's fine except when you want to run the same report multiple times w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copied objects should not retain the "Created" and "Modified" dates of the object it's copied from

Copied objects retain the "Created" and "Modified" date of the object from which they are copied. Please change this so these dates default to the current date/time when the object is created (copied). This would be more meaningful and helpful. Th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Color Options in PAW

Currently Paw displays "resticted" levels in pale green, which is pleasant. It woud be nice to have the ability to choose other colours, for example Pale Blue, for this.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Open cognos analytics notifications for external notifications via API

We would like to post notification from extranal applications to our cognos interface via APIs. We have integrated solution for Cognos and planning analytics with one common portal build in CA11 and we would like to push some PA notifications to t...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

STATUS_CHANGE_TIME Colum doesnt exist in in mon_get views

We are currently working to migrate all our SNAP views to MON_GET views/Functions as SNAP views caused a response spike in our PROD environment recently.We are using STATUS_CHANGE_TIME columns of sysibmadm.applications to check lock waits on the d...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Allow PAM in OleDB clients (for password mode)

Currently OleDB clients can't connect to PAM enabled ports.We recently allowed PAM connections for DRDA connections if in password mode (APAR IC99560). I'd say there is no reason why OleDB wouldn't work for password mode, just like it was implemen...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Extracting and Presenting values from ISO20022 msgs in FTM MER screens

Idea details Extracting and Presenting values from ISO20022 msgs in FTM MER screens We are suggesting that the value from certain fields in ISO20022 messages pacs.002 and pacs.008 are extracted and presented in MER screens. Purpose is to in...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Future consideration

Ability to reorganize Custom Properties, Classifications, Business Terms

Currently OOTB: 1- Custom properties are listed in alphabetical order 2- business terms and classifications are ordered by creation date We cannot change the order once it is assigned. Why it is important, For Example - we have assigned a Term whi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration