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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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Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Relationship Editor - Selecting several related items at one time

Real-life scenario is that user has to add several related items to a product in persona-based UI. For example user need to create a relationship from item A to 25 items 1 ....25. Currently user has to open the editor, search and select items in r...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support KAIO in cooked files using 4k formated disk for dbspaces with page size multiple of 4

Currently, filesystem on hard disk with 4k sector size disables usage of KAIO feature. Request is to allow dbspaces with pages multiple of sector size (4k, 8k, 12k and 16k) to be able to use KAIO. For sure, dbspcaces with other page sizes should r...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Run schedule once option

Run schedule once option is not available for Users My schedules and activity management.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improve persistent thread concurrency

With the implementation of transactions with persistent threads (like pseudo wait-for-input on IMS) we have been facing some concurrency issues in our site, specially with HPU and batch programs that perform lock escalation. This happens because t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse Need support for columnar tables when case insensitivity is configured

System: IBM Integrated Analytics SystemActor: Customer requiring capability My customer is migrating from Teradata to Db2 Warehouse (IIAS appliance). The appliance has been configured for Row-organized tables because case insensitivity is required...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Add option to Cognos Hyperlink to open in new Tab/Window

Currently, in Interactive mode, when report authors add a dataitem to leverage Hyperlink, there are no controls to allow authors to set the links to open in new Tab or new window. We have to train our users to hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys whic...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Functionality already exists

Printing/Scheduling capability in Planning Analytics Web and Workspace

We like to request Planning Analytics Web and Workspace should have printing and report scheduling functionality. Currently no such functionality exists which requires analysts/manager to download reports created in TM1 planning analytics/workspac...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration