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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,

  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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Log Viewer - bring it back!

As many were use to using in prior versions of Cognos -- LogViewer was a great program. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines some file was updated and it got hosed in C11 -- and now is not even shipped with the product. Customers/Clients/Admin...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Facility to manage access by parametrized url on an unauthorized folder

If a user accesses from a third-party portal via a Cognos parameterized url on a Cognos folder to which he does not have rights,the native cognos home screen is displayed with this error message :"Unable to load requested view. Displaying home vie...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

API call to retrieve patch/fix information for any product

Currently we have to check for the existence of any new fixes for all vendor products we support. This is a manual process which is time consuming. Additionally the information requested for compliance doesn't exactly match up with what we can ret...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Make custum attribute mandatory

Capability to add an error message on Governance artefacts data entry for mandatory attribute when information is not filled. (custum attribute mandatory if not filled > message)
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

ObjectStar to Java code conversion

My customer has a bunch of ObjectStar code running a key business system and wants to migrate that to Java and DB2.
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics For MS Office

We downloaded the latest version of Cognos Analytics for MS office and connected it to Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 environment. We tried to import the report to PowerPoint. We found we couldn't import 11.1 style visualization to PowerPoint. It shows b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration