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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.

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241 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Official Support for the MilliTime TI function

Please could we get official support for MilliTime so that it is made public knowledge, documented and available in PAW autocomplete and no longer gives errors when saving the process. This will benefit many users when they need to create a uniqu...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 5 Submitted

Introduce locked View visibility in Books after submission of task in PAW-Plan

Scenario: A Book named "Sales" is created, containing multiple views assigned to different tabs. A Plan called "Sales Plan" is created, and within this plan, a task named "SalesPlan2025" is assigned the "Sales" book as its asset. User-'A' (Approve...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release
260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review