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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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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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Provide a method to allow LSF simulations to be captured by a customers RTM

Provided a customer set's up a RTM hostname, and credentials, when a simulation is started, register the simulation clusters data collector and the cluster itself with that RTM and then enable collection for the duration of the simulation. Name th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Application rotation or maintenance of created files in /tmp (ex. snappy)

The product leaves temporary files into /tmp directory that are not properly taked care of. That means that external processes must be carried out in order to not flood that directory. Could you please implement into the product any mean of addres...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

PAx: Calculations created in an Exploration View or directly in MDX must be visible in Quick Report mode

Based on PMR 85782,660,706 In PAx, subtotals in rows and/or columns are needed in some cases. This subtotals can be specific for one given business process and change from one year to an other year. These substotals cannot be part of the dimension...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

C11.1.1 Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane

Default option when creating a new report is Show properties pane. Users are getting confused as why it is blank. Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane will help entire user population.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make ifxcollect dump location configurable

The directory used by ifxcollect is hardcoded to $INFORMIXDIR/isa/data.This breaks as soon as IDS has been upgraded to a new version/special build and needs manual intervention which can be forgotten easily. What would probably work much better if...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CA Security View for Administrators

There should be an easy way for a CA Administrator to review security for users or groups. At the moment, we can't select a user and see what their membership is. This would also be useful to review what membership a group has to other groups.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Font Options text in Bullet Charts

Working on creating a dashboard, I am using a bullet chart. I have an Actual bar and a Target. Then I have it repeated (rows). I find that I can't change the text color on the Row text, it's black. I also don't see where I can customize the color ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Dashboard Text Items and Visualization Titles to Reflect Parameters

In report studio, a text item can be set to be equal to the value of a parameter, allowing titles to show what that page/visualization/table is being filtered by. For example, if there is a filter by state, and the current filter is on Ohio, the t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nulls should display correctly in Frequency Distribution

Currently in a Data Quality, Frequency Distribution for an asset created by legacy COBOL on mainframe, the field may contain spaces or main contain Low Values (Hex 00) character. Currently WKC displays any non-printable character as "Spaces". In t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Allowlist only the HTML tags that wont trigger any execution in the browser

As a part of Pent test,it was observed that IBM Cognos application is vulnerable to Stored-XSS occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a vulnerable web application. The application accepts all type of inputs without validation ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration