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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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Integration of UI Extensions (Helpers) in the Task Focused UI

In many cases customers have UI extensions (helpers) to allow for functionality that is not available in the standard UI. In the new UI currently there are extensions for Watson Classifiers, but the ability to extend the UI for custom functionalit...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cascading Filter Prompts on Dynamic Dashboards

Global Filters and Tab Filters on Dynamic Dashboards cannot be assigned a Cascade Parent. Users can create List Widgets to use as filters but this takes up screen space (see requests for "drop down" style text/list widgets to get around this issue...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Entering free MDX statement in PAW

MDX has many nice features to query data from a TM1 cube. At the moment it is not possible to enter free MDX statement in PAW. It is only possible to open a pre defined view from TM1 server or to create a new view via the view desingner widget (ex...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT I would like to see IBM provide a specific function for converting a HEX to BIGINT. I think this would be useful for many/most/all users of Db2! Why? The IBM LOAD utility will report that when input dat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Creating and maintaining TM1 user accounts in PAW

At the moment a new TM1 user account can only be created and mainained in "Architect" or "Perspectives" (creating user, creating user group, deleting user, deleting user group, assign user to a user group). This case is urgent because "Architect" ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Cognos 11 Dashboard - Ability to Reuse Report Elements

Ability to reuse elements (i.e. Charts, Tables, etc..) created using the C11 Reporting Tool and incorporate them into a Dashboard. (just like in Cognos 10)
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered
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Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

DSNT376I message don't supply total information to solve the problem analisys

I found that as soon as the DB2 Lock Escalation message occurred (DSNI031I), DB2 seems to begin rejecting the ESS SQL calls against this tablespace, *immediately* without waiting the DB2 lock timeout interval. This probably explains why there is n...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 10 Delivered

Integrate Event Studio functionality into C11 Analytics core

Event Studio in v10.2.2 was a very handy toolset that allowed businesses to schedule jobs with much more detail than the regular scheduler. We were able to verify conditions, and create detailed step by step actions to take. Also, the communicatio...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered