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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.

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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Automatic generation of field MsgId: Message Identification in MX MSGs when entered manually in MER

Field Field MsgId: Message Identification is mandatory and unique so it should be generated automatically during manual entry of MX MSGs in MER
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Future consideration

New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

View/Edit Workspace calculations

When you have created a calculation in PAW there is no way to view or edit the calculation. Most important is to be able to view the calculation, but it would be great if it would be possible to edit it as well.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Suppressing RACF messages and security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM Studio

A new DVM server parameter will be added to suppress the RACF log messages and SMF recording for internal DVM calls. This new approach is to redesign the way to handle both the security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM S...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to apply Style Picker formatting to multiple columns at the same time

When trying to use the Style Picker tool, there seems to be no way to apply the style to multiple cells/columns/rows at a time since the 'Style picker' icon disappears from the pop-up tool bar once you CTRL+Click to select multiple cells
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration