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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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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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Make XML tablespaces more portable

Currently, there are 3 different internal structures that Db2 uses for the implicitly created table inside an XML tablespace: 3 columns, 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINARY(8), and 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINAR...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need TI functions to determine the number of hierarchies in a dimension and hierarchy name by index.

Currently, there are not TI functions to determine the number of hierarchies in a dimension and/or given an index the name of the hierarchy.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Extension Node - Syntax Highlighting

Initial Situation: In same cases we have the need in ibm spss modeler streams to use R / python to add very special functionality. Issue: The extension node, e.g. (extension model) has no syntax highlighting Due to the lack of usability, most of i...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

More Generic Error message for CAF - Reflective XSS

With recent penetration testing, the IBM security team thought that the CAF (which was enabled) was allowing Reflective XSS. After feedback from the CA developers, it was learned that the CAF is working as designed and no scripts are able to do an...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Apply & retain formatting to exploration views cell in Server format mode

In Exploration view and with server formats turned on (not excel formats), users want to be able to highlight or reformat a cell or cells and then for PAX to keep that cell intersection during navigation of the exploration view. Currently formatti...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration