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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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Add screen tip option in Cognos 11 to show reprot description along with report name when we hover mouse over report name

See report description when we hover over report name from report's list in cognos 11.6
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW: User friendly Multiple Selection for Header Dimensions including Calculation options

The process of selecting some elements from a header dimension, including the possibility to select the calculation mode for these elements (min, max, sum, average, …), in diagrams as well as in tables, is not too user-friendly. Current workaround...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Cognos Event Studio need to work in Google Chrome

Many Cognos modules, like Cognos Event Studio does not work with Navigator Google Chrome 64And It works only with Internet Explorer.But all other funcionality works with Chrome. So, I had to explain to our users that this module only works in Inte...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT I would like to see IBM provide a specific function for converting a HEX to BIGINT. I think this would be useful for many/most/all users of Db2! Why? The IBM LOAD utility will report that when input dat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered
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Backup from RSS or HDR Secondaries using ontape, onunload, onbar, dbexport

In HDR enviroments, being able to backup or export databases from and HDR, HDR read-only, or an RSS secondary server is critical. Programs like ontape, onunload, dbexport, and onbar generate locks on tables during backups and data-exports. This cr...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update

Snowflake is requesting to update the JDBC driver to the latest version as they will be ending support for older versions at the end of April 2024.
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

SPSS Modeler Japanese Text Analysis support

Japanese text analysis didn't implement for v18.1 , though it had been supported until v18.0 , due to third vendor component dependency.
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered

Integration of UI Extensions (Helpers) in the Task Focused UI

In many cases customers have UI extensions (helpers) to allow for functionality that is not available in the standard UI. In the new UI currently there are extensions for Watson Classifiers, but the ability to extend the UI for custom functionalit...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered