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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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Redshift connector - Allow the use of IAM role authentication to establish connection instead of the access key and secret key.

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
8 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Add option to CC and BCC for bursted reports

When bursting a report to an email address the client would like the option to also specify CC and BCC fields instead of all recipients being in the ""To"" field.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

The function LENGTH () also for BLOBs / CLOBs

Unfortunately, there is no SQL statement that returns the size of the blob. You have to use an external program to get such information. I wish the sql function length() worked for BLOBs/CLOBs.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Change design for Calculations on Locked Objects

Currently there is no exception for calculations on locked objects, meaning thy system tries to execute calculations on locked objects, resulting in error messages to the users (and errors showing on the calculation). This is the request: Calculat...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Ability to apply 'stoplight' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to apply 'stop-light' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove option to print a report output

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us, the idea of printing on a printer connected to the network that the server...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Number of Intercompany differences in Submission Overview

It would be very helpful if a user with lot of companies could view number of intercompany differences directly in the "Submission Overview" instead of opening company by company.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Selector Widget as dropdown

A selector widget PAW is only shown as a flat list. It would be helpful to show it as a Dropdown like a subnm in Excel.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists