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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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  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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Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With Clause on SAP HANA

When migrating from SAP BW on Oracle to SAP HANA or in general when using SAP HANA as data source via JDBC Dynamic Query Mode is not generating complex SQLs with a WITH CLAUSE statement. During a major project with a bank we experienced that from ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow converting of the SYSCATSPACE to the reclaimable storage.

There is no way to convert the Catalog tablespace to RECLAIMABLE storage. The only workaround is to create a new database and to migrate the objects and the data. Since, we have a lot of databases which were created in pre-9.7 versions, we are stu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Preview ODBC Source, change back to show 10 records in PAW Version 73

Prior to PAW version 73 when previewing the data source using an ODBC datasource the first 10 records where displayed, with the release of PAW 73 you can only preview the first record. This is a big hindrance to testing your SQL when you don't hav...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improved Error Reporting

Error Messages - we can't retrieve data should be more helpful. eg "Cubename" cube doesn't exist, or "Cubename" cube has different dimensions, or "elementname" element on "dimensionname" dimension doesn't exist.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search reports sent to

I would like to be able to query who reports are delivered to.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parallel Classic Reorg on a partitioned table

Many DBA want to run multiple partitions in partitioned table.at a same time Serial execution takes too long time, it is not really efficient.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Drop Down Selector fill colour

The default background colour for Drop Down Selector is white without any ability to change the colour to fit with theme of the work book. The fill colour in general style only applies to the border colour.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Internal IP disclosure in SOAP response

We have noticed that internal IP are being displayed in the SOAP response from the server. This has been identified as a security issue. More information can be found via case TS002431041.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration