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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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Allow multiple deletes of change statements

In comparing databases from one environment to another there is likely a list of changes we do not want to apply yet for a variety of reasons. The resulting compare creates a change ID. The tool allows us to delete these statements. However, the p...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Preventing accidental singleton creation in Report

What has always been a struggle for new users in Report Studio is the ability to accidentally create singletons when dragging data items onto the report page. As we are training our Query Studio users in the Cognos Analytics Report we are seeing t...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom extensions / graphs in PAW

Currently customers are relying on predefined graphs on PAW. For example when analyzing scheduling data there is no Gantt chart or other convinient tool to create graphs for schedules. Many customers needs another platform for analyzing the schedu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Interactive mode crosstab wrong summary when expanding

When running a report in interactive mode having a cross tab (dimensionally modeled) and you have a set and a summary on rows. When expanding one member the summary double counts the result since both the member and the children now are visible. T...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Transformer in Cloud for Clients building against DashDB

Currently customers that are building Transformer PowerCubes on premise against DashDB in the cloud are forced to leverage IQDs (32-bit) due to the excessive round-trips of the data when using DQM data sources (64-bit). This is necessitating a slo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change color of Summary label

When I create a summary visualisation in a dashboard (v 11.2.4), there is no way to change the color, font and style of the label (you can only hide it and change the text alignment). One should be able to style the label the same way as the title.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Make CP cumulFunction and expressions accept float instead of int

cumulFunction and expressions currently only allow the resource usage to be int which is not useful for all resource types. Whilst a workaround of multiplying the int by a large number to approximate the float is possible there are limitations and...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Improve OPL Interfaces by providing dynamically typed API and a “façade” compatible with the .NET framework

Using OPL interface in .Net is cumbersome. Manipulate data elements object and result is far from being trivial.By example, instantiate an int look like that: OplDataSource dataSource = new MyCustomDataSource(oplF); internal class MyCustomDataSour...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration