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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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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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Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights on Move Option

We have faced performance issues with big customers who used to use Move Options (Folder View) for business change purposes. OpenPages has a way to limit this right but is Binary (everything or nothing), anyway customer has multiple scenarios for ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Concurrent Query Execution

Cognos Analytics have concurrent query execution setting at server level and report query but it does not work efficiently in most of the case. Concurrent query execution is one of the bigger ask from the customer for better performance.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Management Console

We have run into a situation where we need to have select access on application objects in order to be able to use Management console. However this type of application access is restricted to our 'privileged' IDs, which use 2FA to login. But Manag...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Lets Get Rid of the Big White Blinking Page in Reporting!

User is viewing a Cognos report, and executes a drill through or refresh...Page goes white, animated gif starts spinning forever, while you're looking at a white page...drill through report applications are elegant, except for this behavior! This ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visually Identify Fed and Un-Fed Cells with Cell shading

Create a feature to allow developers to turn on cell shading for Fed and Un-Fed cells. It is difficult and cumbersome to determine the level of feeding within a cube. It is difficult to understand how much over-feeding or under-feeding that is occ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add STET Feeder Feature

Create the ability to call out regions of a cube that are designated as to not be fed. With Rule language it is often the case that some Version are Calculated while others are not. Versions that are not calculated, such as archived versions, are ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change element icons within the content store navigation (as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x)

In Congos Analytics 11 it is not possible to change the icon for example of a report or folder as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x. If a user navigates through the Content Store he always see the same icons for reports or folders, it is not pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration