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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versio...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size. e.g. If the data range is 2x2 cells and then an action (e.g. stacking dims on rows/ columns or drilling into a consolidation) increases the data range szie, provided the fo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

JGate log file cleanup

We need a way to limit the number of log files that JGate will create.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add (designer specifiable?) "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons to slider filter

Slider filters refresh the data as soon as a value is "selected".Usually one needs at least 2 values (lower and higher) before the desired result is obtained, and sometimes even more right / left slides, until the desired resolution is obtained.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non informative error message for conditional formatting

If I set up conditional formatting for List in Report Studio and then change underlying Query Subject for this List I'll get scary error "RSV-SRV-0040 The report server encountered an internal error.": http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Transformer published group cube default location

When cogtr.exe is used how to set default location for publishing the cube groups. For normal cubes we can determine default folder location to publish the built cubes. But for cube groups we cant determine the default location for saving/publishi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for status views auto-refresh in IBM Cognos Administration

An automatic refresh interval should be configurable to specify the refresh interval of the status pages in IBM Cognos Administration. This applies for Current Activities, Upcoming Activities, Past Activities and Schedules.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > cu

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > currently supported Informix Dynamic Server database server software and CSDK releases Changing this functionality will ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration