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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,

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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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Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Visualization "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" title formatting

It's not possible in Workspace, when working with a Visualization that offers "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" to format the title of the various repeated visualizations. Please enable the same consistent set of tools available to format other...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add type of execution in activities view

Currently there is no easy way to differentiate between different kind of executions in Cognos in activities view and my schedules and subscriptions view. There are the following types of executions: page preview run from Report Authoring run ad h...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Output Format data in Audit Package

The report performance is being calculated using Audit package. The performance report will be published to the higher level of management. The report performance should be captured only for the HTML report execution. In the Audit package, there i...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Control of default Folder order in Workspace

Want certain folders to be the first in the list by default. Right now the newest folders always show up at the top of the page.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists