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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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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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Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

DQM Query Execution Time Limit

Implement a governor to limit the execution time of DQM Queries, since currently there is no governor that applies to DQM Queries, as per documentation and feedback from PMR 07802,499,000. The customer VF Services (9446150) has a business requirem...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Ability to select the ranges for heat palette for geographic heatmap

Ability to define ranges for heat palette in mapping capabilities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SQLCODE -180 (invalid date/time) - add identifier for hostvariable.

When it comes to SQLCODE -180 (invalid value for date/time/timestamp) due to wrong data in an input-hostvarible currently DB2 issues following SQLCODE: SELECT * FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES WHERE CREATEDTS = ? Hostvariable holds 'SCHUBIDU' DSNT408I SQLCO...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Size & Overflow of Chart Objects on DASHBOARD via enhanced controls

Need ability to actual set Size and Overflow properties of Dashboard objects, such as Width and Height of a Bar Graph or a Heat Map through property similar to what we have in REPORTS or in Report Studio. Currently the Size can be changed only via...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Jobs: add load dataset step

Ability to add a load dataset step to a job
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Add me to the Alert list" functionality missing in Cognos Analytics

With Cognos 10.2.x Users could subscribe to Alerts occurring in regards to Agents using the "Add me to the Alert list" feature in the More... Dialogue of an Agent. With Cognos Analytics this functionality can only be accessed if Cognos Connection ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration