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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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  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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Restrict Users From Using Cognos Groups And Roles As Email Recipients

Currently, any user can setup a Cognos report, subscription, or schedule to email any Cognos group or role. This means any Cognos group or role can be used as an email DL. For Cognos Admins and Focals, this is a very nice feature. However, end use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

Parallel Unload of Partitioned Table including Lob columns is not possible

We try to unload a partioned Tablespace with a Lob column into Datasetswith spanned format.But is unload into one Datset and i do not see the following messageDSNU1201I 326 13:35:11.03 DSNUUNLD - PARTITIONS WILL BE UNLOADED IN PARALLEL We have lar...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Object Activity Export

Ability to export to Excel the Activity Tab content.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

IBM PAC enhancements

In Input file selection field of IBM PAC job submission template, the file browser window defaults to a very small size. Could the file browser window automatically maximize? Small window doesn't display long file names completely
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Future consideration

Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ability to show what users are logged into Cognos analytics

when doing maintenance, you do not know who is in the system, so you might drop them as you restart the CM or dispatcher.. it would be nice to be able to see who is logged in...
over 7 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

Improve Hide Summaries property for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards

In a lot of real cases we want to display some attributes but need an overall summary for the key figures. Between version 10.0.10 and 11.1.1 the property "hide summaries" has been introduced for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards. It allows to sw...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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