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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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On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Provide a new bind-option to provide values for the remark-column in SYSPACKAGE

There were several discussions regarding APPLCOMPAT and providing a value that a customer can easily see that a package was bound a level down. This request was refused by DB2 development, but another solution was acceptable. A new bind option can...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support multilingual data labels for non-directly referenced query items in DQM

When you have a multilingual Framework Manager package and re-use query items (for example with a join or query reference) in your report. The data item labels of this report will be, in contrast to CQM, not in the content-locale language (defined...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Rows per page in HTML Reports - Say 1000 at global level

Require a way to load all the pages when run as HTML as their user do not like the page down or up options. currently they are using "Rows per page in HTML Reports" to reduce number of pages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 to cplex & docplex packages (they support a very limited number of Python versions)

Please add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 to the cplex and docplex Python packages as soon as possible and upload new binary packages (wheels) to the Python Package Index. The cplex package currently supports Python 3.7 and 3.8. According to the...

Require NODEFDAC as a server side general setup

This is a follow up on RFE 34407.The original request was classified as "Delivered" but I'd say that veridict totally misses the point. The answer provided states that we can use informix.rc file to set the variable. That's true for UNIX. But in t...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Access applications in task pane instead of PAx ribbon

In Perspectives, applications are accessed through Server Explorer yet in PAx applications are accessed through the ribbon. Not only does this move impact the expected user experience for Perspective converters, but also creates many more clicks t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Quantum battery manufacturing by high vapor pressured elements

high pressurized vapor quantum battery manufacturing using suitable element in ionic or non ionic state
9 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted