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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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Settings to prevent Cognos Controller Web user to click on Set to Ready

In Cognos Controller Web, user is able to click on set company status to ready when they multi select on the company. The user sometimes confuse other users submission with their own, thus accidentally set wrong submission to ready. So if possible...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

PAW: Selector Widget search results to limit results to subset elements

To help users search and select the correct dimension members, we create selector widgets using cube dimensions outside of the cube view. This allows easier navigation without the clutter. It allows a user to easily search dimensions on the rows a...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations

There is no way to translate Report Studio query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations (no report language variable, no additional options). Automatic summary elements only have one name too ("summary (measure)"). Regardless of the langua...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS zIIP eligibilit...

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Integration between PA und CA must be possible

Clients ALWAYS are completely confused offering two UIs to them: PA with PA Workspace and CA. We need to have integration of MINIMUM this: it must be possible to integrate CA-dashboards (as widgets) into PAW and it has to be possible to integrate ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Do away with having to enter @ for character comparisons in Turbointegrator

Having to use @= for comparison statements for strings as opposed to just = for numeric is cumbersome.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Access Control Levels

While building solutions for enterprise customers, I need the ability to limit certain documents or portions of documents to end-users. I would like Discovery to get the ACLs from the source document store, and apply those ACLs at search time to e...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration