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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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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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set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New feature to disable rules during data load process

Pain Point: P&L cube does allocations by rule. During data load of 1 million cells, the allocation N: only rules and N: & C: feeders fire for each cell causing unacceptably long load durations.. Workaround: Even splitting the load process ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit the report retention settings and hide from users

We are a hosted solution that offers Cognos to multiple clients. We want to restrict users from storing too many saved report executions due to space constraints on our hosted content store.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Prompt user for Dynamic Report name rather than using a random number

When adding a dynamic report, what appears to be added as a reference is a random number. In a book with multiple reports and multiple reports on the same sheet, these numbers give no clue as to which report is being referenced. In Perspectives, i...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable additional Watson services as optional enrichments

As part of enriching documents ingested into Discovery, users have indicated the need augment existing NLU enrichments with additional Watson services. Specifically, a user wanted to use personality insights and NLC to help surface insights on con...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration