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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filtering view based on element attributes

Users often have to slice and dice data in views and visualizations for analysis and data input. Today you either have to open the set editor to filter elements, use a selector widget or place the dimension on the canvas for easy selection of spec...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle DB name change with CDC Target

We would like to have a means to change the Oracle Database name for existing subscriptions within Infosphere Change Data Capture. When our Oracle database migrated to the Exadata environment, the database name changed which required dropping and ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple code conversion capabilities

Verizon has released an RFP where they are looking for the ability to convert code between several different languages. A list of the source code languages is in the attached image. Little data has been provided on what language they would convert...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better user error on termination of runaway DQM query

We want to use Cognos Analytics dashboards for ad hoc data exploration, but we need to put limits on query run time so that one user doesn't monopolize DBMS resources. The Framework Manager governor Query Execution Time Limit does not apply to dyn...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide documentation on upgrade best practices

It would be very helpful to know IBMs best practice recommendations with upgrades to Cognos Analytics. Here's an example why... With quarterly releases we have been looking for ways to streamline our upgrade process and wondered if republishing th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration