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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.

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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Receive a warning when you delete a detail report used in master reports.

When a user deletes a report, he does not know that this report is used as a detail report in master reports, in case there are master-detail relationship defined. So, the user should have a warning to indicate that the report is a detail reports...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add Pattern to Dashboard Visualizations for Visually Impaired

Similar to traditional reports, it would be valuable to have the ability to add a pattern to to Dashboard visualizations in order to support the visually impaired. The UI used to choose palettes could be used to define a pattern to apply to visual...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refresh for SSL Listeners (reload certificates)

Today, until current version (12.10 xC4) isn't possible to update/replace/implement a SSL certificate without restart the engine. This RFE include two related feature : 1) Allow stop/start SOCSSL listeners using command "onmode -P" and with this r...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Editing icons

The ability to edit an icon no longer appears in Cognos Analytics.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support IDataReader::GetBytes / IfxDataReader::GetBytes for BSON fields

We're using the BSON capabilities of the Informix server in order to store data in a separate BSON colum - like additional information for the data row or optional fields that may vary from row to row (e.g. translations to different languages). Wi...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

QWT: Incorporate the same unit and costs as SQL/PA

We want QWT to incorporate the same unit and costs as SQL/PA (same QUNIT costs and dollar equivalent costs). We use these costs to compare expected performance of a query across the 30 production regions we manage. our management is always looking...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. Add weekly diagram basis of alert. It could sav...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration