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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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Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release
100 VOTE

automatically activate a database when DB2 LUW is started

See PMR 14855,227,000. We would like some way to automatically activate a specific database when a DB2 instance is started without the use of external scripts or DB2 APIs.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 6 Planned for future release

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Translate Cobol to Java on IBM i

Clients want to modernize their legacy and monolithic applications built years ago using db2 with Cobol on IBM i. They want to innovate, have a scalable solution, reduce operational risks and HR risks (not rely on deep expertise in cobol resources...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Add Turkish to Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech services

According to Wikipedia Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. It'd be very helpful to add Turkish to the Speech services since it is also often required in some client engagements!
almost 2 years ago in Speech Services 4 Not under consideration
105 VOTE

Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Conditionally Rendered Images on Dashboard

The ability to have conditionally rendered images would add tremendous value to dashboards with KPIs, to give a scorecard look and feel. E.G. Red light appears based on target not being met, Green light appears based on target being exceeded. I re...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration