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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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Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

Format Axis Min Max

We request the ability to change the min and max boundaries of each axis.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift

Customers at the TAB meeting in Malta asked if/when Db2 support for Red Hat OpenShift will be available. With the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, support for OpenShift will become more and more important.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics For MS Office

We downloaded the latest version of Cognos Analytics for MS office and connected it to Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 environment. We tried to import the report to PowerPoint. We found we couldn't import 11.1 style visualization to PowerPoint. It shows b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log Viewer - bring it back!

As many were use to using in prior versions of Cognos -- LogViewer was a great program. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines some file was updated and it got hosed in C11 -- and now is not even shipped with the product. Customers/Clients/Admin...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bursting Reports to Email from Cognos on Demand

Bursting reports that are migrated to Cognos on Cloud no longer burst to email recipients. This is an extremely useful future when generating reports for sales teams where the region/area of the report does not change but the person responsible do...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration