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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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Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Create a way to secured access to images for multi-tenant customers.

We have many Educational customers with multiple districts. They want to be able to secure images per district, currently this is not possible. Districts should not be able to access other districts images, which include student photos and signatu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved Error Reporting

Error Messages - we can't retrieve data should be more helpful. eg "Cubename" cube doesn't exist, or "Cubename" cube has different dimensions, or "elementname" element on "dimensionname" dimension doesn't exist.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search reports sent to

I would like to be able to query who reports are delivered to.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drop Down Selector fill colour

The default background colour for Drop Down Selector is white without any ability to change the colour to fit with theme of the work book. The fill colour in general style only applies to the border colour.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

allow QM to EASILY search for SQL that does data changes

This idea belongs to both the ISPF QM interface and the CAE browser interface. I would like some method to use QM to EASILY find SQL that is doing data changes. Sometimes I am using QM to search for SQL that is doing data changes. Why? I am trying...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Create cube from original

When creating a cube, it would be useful to get the dimensions from an already existing cube. Just select the original cube in a dropdown. It would save the hassle of finding the right dimensions in the right order.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2_FORCE_APP_ON_NUM_LOG_SPAN

Please provide a registry var DB2_FORCE_APP_ON_NUM_LOG_SPAN similar to DB2_FORCE_APP_ON_MAX_LOG.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Not under consideration