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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Dynamically change page view in reporting

Currently in Cognos Analytics, when I change the Start page view in Reporting, I need to save the report, exist, and re-open to see the new page view. I understand it's called 'start page view', however it'd be great if this updated on the fly rat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formatting on Planning Analytics not applied as default format in Cognos Analytics.

Problem statement: A solution was created by a US team in Planning Analytics with a set of percentages, the data was then vizualised in Cognos Analytics. We have user all over the world, and users have set the content language to their local langa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name of Query

Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix documentation for oncheck command should be crystal clear

Informix documentation for oncheck command does not explain clearly that this command should be run only during a maintenance window or during an off-hours period because the oncheck utility places a shared lock on system catalog tables when the d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

add option to installFixPack command -f nojava

IBM ask to update java few weeks ago Then IBM ask us to apply a fixpack on our DB2 databases. The command installFixPack apply the DB2 fixpak and also install a new java version older than the one we installed few weeks ago. Could you modify the...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Use Reportpath() function to construct url in Cognos Analytics

Reportpath() function returns the path of the report as /content/folder[@name=""]/report[@name=""] and this was used to construct report url dynamically in C10.2.2. but this path cannot be used to construct url in cognos analytics as the url const...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration