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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.

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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Pair Review Generation Performance Improvement

As it stands right now, with over 200M+ records in Match360, it will take north of 14 hours to generate pairs for review (tested on 90M records). There is no opportunity to improve the performance of this pair generation in the current solution. H...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Define Global Custom Styles for Link Widgets

We want to have a Link Widget that follows our branding for all users to use on the Dashboards. While we can define the Custom CSS and copy/paste the CSS into the field everytime, it would be easier for users to select a Global custom style for a ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

REST API: Provide more detail about the usage/links to File-Based and External data sources.

Here are the API calls I make: To find out about external data sources (Postgres etc.) I use the url: <url>/api/v1/datasources and <url>/api/v1/datasources/<id>/connections To find out which files are imported into the platform I...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Restrict Users From Using Cognos Groups And Roles As Email Recipients

Currently, any user can setup a Cognos report, subscription, or schedule to email any Cognos group or role. This means any Cognos group or role can be used as an email DL. For Cognos Admins and Focals, this is a very nice feature. However, end use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

User Access Management

Over time we had many users and many of them become idle, left IBM or got another role. Keeping these users generates risk. We want to remove these users and I couldn't remove them all by one step. I had to do it one by one and it took a lot of ti...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Real time statistics (RTS) should include information about index traversal count

Application DBA's and developers use performance metrics, acess paths, object definitions and Real Time Statistics (RTS) when analyzing application perfomance. Information about FTB should be syncronized with other information about the index and ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

All/This tabs filter - ability to exclude values from a filter

Would like to the ability to exclude values from an all/this tab filters. I.e we show account types, if we want to show just expense account type, we either have to add the filter to the canvas instead of as a filter or go through. The Account typ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration