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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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Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

Dynamic Sorting on Subtotals and Totals
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox field type & assoc. formula in Salesforce need to be able to be visible in Cognos Analytics with a direct connection

We have made a direct connection from Cognos Analytics to Salesforce.com. We are able to see all Salesforce fields in Cognos with the exception of 2 crucial ones that make the connection useless without them. The one field is called NDA_C and is a...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to hide default palette in charts

Currently setting a conditional palette in the chart still leaves default palette showing in the legend. We ask to either have some kind of ability to manually hide the default palette or make it be hidden automatically when the conditional palett...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional logging on the private subsets

We are using Planning Analytics, in one of the recent issue we have seen private subsets are taking longer time to load then usual. When we check the logs they were insufficient to tell that what is causing the delay. So we are suggesting that the...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 to Insert more than 32KB data into a CLOB column

SQL Server Management Studio, Toad for Oracle allow inserts with more than 32 KB column size but DB2 doesn't allow the same and this is a show stopper for few projects to come into DB2 ZoS as data fixes by application team is not possible in produ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Open the book with the comment

When I open a book and someone else is editing that book, I want to see a message that the book is being edited. (When I edit a book and want to save it, I notice when someone else opens and edits the same book at the same time)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete books or views

If I delete a book or view by mistake, I have no chance to recover it. (it will be deleted forever, I need recycle bin for PAW)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration