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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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default path to save new report

For new reports, Cognos Analytics always default the save path to location of the latest data source used in the report. This default option is not convenient in our environment as we keep separated Data Sources and Reports in different folder str...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow resizing or expansion of private/personal filter dropdown

On the task-focused UI when creating a private/personal filter, the size of the dropdown is fixed. When a long value is listed on the dropdown list, users are not able to see the full text. For instance, the dropdown list value is "Supercalifragil...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration

Rest API Native View Skip Consolidations

The native view entity object of the rest api does not include the skip consolidations property. This complicates things when copying native views with the rest api. I realize architect/perspectives will be deprecated at some point and native view...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to Disable and Enable Users

We currently have a certain number of users for our Planning Analytics Cloud Environment, during our budget cycle, we would have additional users entering their budget. Would like the ability to just pay for them on an as needed basis(typically 3 ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to turn off DB2 security

Could we get a ZPARM that allows the deactivation of DB2 security in favor of a security product (ie. RACF). It would be nice if RACF was the ONLY authoritative source for security requests. Currently if a result isn't returned by RACF, DB2 checks...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Give the option to make an index "invisible" to DB2

Sometimes, when I have added and index, I have had some surprises in the optimizer using that index when it should not. I would like a quick way to make the index "invisible" to the optimizer and make it not eligible for access paths until I speci...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration