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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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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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Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment: - data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Bind avoidance when using Enterprise Cobol with co-processor

The basic idea of Bind Avoidance is to exchange the consistency token in the executing code from the current version to the previous which means that no package bind will be necessary. Traditionally the Db2 pre-compiler has been used to pre-proces...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to Update Banner/Titles

Requesting the ability to update the banner/titles within the Planning Analytics Workspace interface. At the top of the screen, there is the logo in the top left and the title "IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. Speed. Agility. Foresight". We would...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refresh table process needs ways to identify possible bootlenecks

During normal Mirroring in a subscription we have the ability to put it into monitoring and the console shows the activity and possible bottlenecks. But during refresh it's like a "black box". We have no way within the product to try to identify t...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

add data masking as option for object security in Framwork Manager and Data Module

Having Data Masking available as security option for object security in Framework Manager and the Data Module allows us to set the visibility of a certain attribute in a report or dashboard for specific user groups, as defined in the security of C...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

edit hover-over information in charts on PAW (and on PAfE and TM1Web)

it would be nice to have the possibility to edit the box / pop-up window for hover-over in charts, it means, you can decide, what information you can see at the hover-over. At least, it would be nice to see all the information for the value that i...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration