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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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Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

Callout/Highlight (add to Canvas) to have conditional formating

Callout/hightlight (add to canvas) requires conditional formatting (text/ background) to display eg1 Green for positive or Red for Negative, 2 Green, Amber, Red to show the impact Sorry I could not find a name to describe this function in the IBM ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Finer granularity of configuration parameters

Many configuration settings are currently at the whole level of granularity. 1) Similar to 'use' privilege at the tablespace level, it would be helpful to be able to grant 'load' privileges at the tablespace level too. Currently it is a database-l...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

ADM tools - saving reports

We converted from CA tools to IBM tools, and one of the areas that is not up tp par is ability to save a report into a dataset. Example - I can produce a multi-page Drop-Impact report, but there is no command that allows me to save it into a datas...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Saved window sizes should be sanity-checked when opening

User opens a dataentry form in Excel and clicks to open the Intercompany popup. A window is opened and visible in the taskbar, but the user cannot access it in any way (but it can be closed funny enough). When unticking the 'Save window size' opti...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Allow admin user to monitor & cancel queries being run by other users

Users can initiate queries to fetch data that could result in long running queries which might use a lot of CPU time and affect the overall performance of the system. Only the user who initiated it can cancel the query. Need an enhancement to prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Make hoover colors changeable when customizing theme

We want to change colors when hoover over buttons in Cognos Analytics: * background-color * foreground-color (= text color) * selectLine And we want to change colors for active buttons (when user has clicked on a button): * background-color is c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Documentation of raw data format in Classic CDC MQ publishing.

This is not functional requirement, but documentation requirement. it seems that Classic CDC MQ publishing have a capability to publish data format by using PUBBINASIS=TRUE. I've found this function in developerWorks. https://developer.ibm.com/ans...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Auto and dynamic adjust of row and height of excel column for report output in Excel format

Application Team is looking for Auto/dynamic adjust of row and height of excel column for report output in Excel format
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release