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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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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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Set folder as home page

Unable to set a folder as the home page in Cognos 11. This functionality is something that users often use. It is useful, convenient, time-saving, while accessing folders that we frequently access.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve drill through security

A customer was using SQL/ODBC drill through that showed sensitive data in some cells and "general" data on some other cells. Drill through could not be secured by dimension elements so we had to develop complex setup to check if user has access to...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support list partitioning - Range-Partitioning allows only to define the upper limit for a partitioned Tablespace.

Full Support for LIST-Partitioning required! With classical Partitioning or UTS Partion-by-Range you can only define the upper limits (key-Ranges) for a partitioned Tablespace. The lower partition-range ist defined by the highest value of the next...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add MERGE-functionality on LOAD-utility

MR0112077423 GGDB207006
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add and drop include columns to/from unique index as a pending change

To accomplish high availability for schema changes in a 24/7 environment, an addition of an Include Column to a unique index should be implemented as a pending change that is materialized by an online REORG. Dropping an include column from a uniqu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add unique user column to Cognos Audit database

The Cognos audit database only tracks a user the COGIPF_USERNAME. Having a field that is always unique and les likely to change such as an institution ID or email address would enhance audit reporting. It would also help avoid issues where users h...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Own color palette for each KPI in diagrams

The customer wants a diagram in his report, where KPIS for different departments are shown. For each KPI the actual value is used with the target value in the same diagram. The actual value should use the normal color palette with all company colo...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Default the delivery method to Excel/pdf at the report run time

I was looking for something like when user runs the report, if there is huge data set, Cognos suggest to select Delivery Method on the dialog box. When users select email option, it always sends HTML copy as there is no place to define Report Outp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimize querying on model using bridge table

Use of 'SELECT DISTINCT' on the bridge table part of a model is unusable in real life. When you have millions of records, query have low performance
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration