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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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Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a "callout" type text box to point a textual comment

Added a "callout" type text box that would make it easier to point a textual comment to a specific report element (e.g. bar in a graph, row or column in a cell)
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Customize in PAW the “Accept Invitation - IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise XXXX Account” emails

System : Planning Analytics WorkspaceActor : Administrators We would like to be able to customize the email that is sent when users are invited to Planning Analytics Workspace by administrators. Currently the email is as below: Subject : Accept In...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support of MultiByteCode for IBM i Agent

We have to store data from different IBM i Systems from several countries, with diffent local encodings (DE/AT = CCSID 273, NO = CCSID 277, BE = 500, ...) into one target schema. Therefore we descided to use for character fields the data type NCHA...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

DataStage FlowDesigner add support for multi invocation of a job

DataStage Designer/Director support Multiple Invocations but the FlowDesigner (v11.7.1.1) does not support it. Please provide support for multi invocations for Sequences and parallel Jobs. That's a important feature that should not be thrown away ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Make a package default for all reports in cognos 11.09

Set a package to be default package for all the new reports for Cognos 11.09.Currently there is no option that can set a particular package to be default package for all the new reports in Cognos 11.In Cognos 11 Users always have to add package ma...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

In grid view user can not filter top 100 or 200 record (for a field value or a date filed)

In object type with a lot of records, it's possibile to create personal and public filters BUT it's not possibile to filter a number or records (example top 100, top 200) order by a value (loss value or by a date (for example creation date or last...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration