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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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141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Replace URL path option for images in books

Ease and risk reduction when it is necessary to change images on several screens and books at the same time (currently it is necessary to enter image by image and change manually). It could be an option in admin with replace (FROM/TO) that would s...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

IRLM enhancement in case of global deadlock processing

We had a situation which was described in case TS015567644. The symptom was that IRLM could not fully process the complete deadlock stuff of all members of an 8-way DS system. Therefore we get DXR167E in some of the members. Additional workload wi...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

use a datamodule 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 10 Not under consideration

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review
107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
8 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted