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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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 clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Features missing in DMC

1) We are not able to get the Display of DB Size for each database. Can you please help to get this enabled in DMC. 2) We are not having option to check the Backup status for each DB in DMC . Please help to get this enabled in DMC. 3) We would lik...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List Report - Display "Total Pages Number" with the Page Number

List Report should be able to display the Page No/Total Page No's along with the buttons "Top", "Page Up", "Page down", "Page bottom". This should be the basic feature and very useful feature. Example Page 1/10, 2/10 .....10/10. By knowing the Tot...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated Copy forward opening balances

Following on the automation theme. Users have requested an automated copy forward opening balances feature
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to notify me functionality; "Notify me" Include Email Notification Option (Cloud & OnPrem)

Current : when a user selects an option to notify me for the report/output, when the scheduled report gets updated. Cognos notifies the user with bell notifications updates in Home Portal. Functionality Need: In addition to the Bell notifications,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW should support 1GB pages on Linux x64 platform

When using VMWare as Host System for (RH) Linux we are able to configure 1GB Pages like: sched.mem.lpage.enable1GPage = "TRUE" On the other hand DB2 on Linux Redhat Guest System right now does only support huge (2MB) pages per IBM DB2 documentatio...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Schedule From Executing if the Current Execution Has Not Completed

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over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resource allocation graph in cyclops

In Cyclops the only graph that doesn't store data in InfluxDB is the "resource allocation one" That is a big shame as this prevents us from going back in time and seeing the data for this graph as well as the graph not adjusting to the time frame ...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration