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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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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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Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Share private subsets between users

(See attached file for more information) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users use private subsets all the time. For example, they track the progress of their top products by saving them int...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - "Remove" calculation in set editor should remove calculation from the query and not only from the current set

(See attached file for more details) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. When they don’t use it anymore, they simply remove the calculation fr...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Store user defined calculation

End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. However, they have no way to save these calculations in case they want to use it in another view. There’s no workaround, they have to re-create the calculation every time they need it. I've a...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Planning Analytics rounding issue

In a case submitted to IBM: TS008741229 my team discovered that due to the design of Planning Analytics in terms of how it stores values (IEEE-754 Floating Point Double format) we came across scenarios where PA would not round correctly and hence ...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration management in COGNOS Connection Portal

Users accessing COGNOS Connection portal are not notified wen their password has expired and get an "invalid login/password" error message.They have no way of resetting their asswrd and an administrator action is required.We would like to have the...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow admins to modify or delete labels

Labels provide a convenient and effect way to manage analytical assets but there is no mechanism for editing/modifying/deleting incorrect labels or those no longer needed.
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web report to suppress zero value

Controller Web should have a Company Journal Across report equivalent that eliminates all zero values account. The report will not be too lengthy.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration