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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to download Uploaded files

Currently there is option to refresh uploaded file. However we cant download file which is uploaded already. The best way it can be fixed is to have download option against uploaded file like one available for themes now.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide detailed documentation regarding the "Search" feature

The "new and improved" search feature in Cognos Analytics is currently poorly documented.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rule Trace to include line of code

Add the feature to show what Line Number the rule of code is in the Trace feature. This would just be a great convenience when troubleshooting calculations.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for static SQL queries text storage in CQM_SUMM_TEXT

There is currently no support for the static SQL in CQM when one wants to store the SQLTEXT for such queries. Only dynamic SQL is supported. It is currently possible to see in the ISPF interface the static sql, but it is gone after a rollup of the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration