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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,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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 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

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

Add built-in function for generating new UUID values

Generating new UUIDs for large tables has become a serious performance issue for us. We have a workflow in our application that updates a UUID column for tables in excess of 5 million rows. This takes us upwards of 2 hours in our odbc (cli) applic...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

PAW: The cancel button on the set editor is huge

The cancel button on the set editor is huge (Image 1). Would it be possible to give it the same size as the other 3 buttons on the right? and potentially another color to make it clear that there’s a cancel button and not an empty space (Image 2)
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

real append processing on insert for LOB when specifying append

Our customers send us many millions of documents every day, which we have to save in the form of LOBs very quickly and without interruption in DB2. For this we use the APPEND option to be able to process the inserts as quickly as possible. Unfortu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

EC2U 25 GE PCIE3 adapter for db2 purescale cluster interconnect

Consider certifying the PCIe3 2-port 25/10 Gb NIC & RoCE SFP28 Adapter (FC EC2U) for use with db2 purescale cluster for cluster interconnect
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Add SCOPE(GROUP) to the Start/Stop Profile command

In our shop we have many Db2 data sharing members. If we need to stop and then start our profile tables we need to do so in many places. Adding the SCOPE(GROUP) to the both the start and the stop command would reduce the number of places and comma...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Email text template

Often reports are sent from Cognos via email to the receipients. As the reports owner, we take care in adding a relevant text to the email, such as our company's official logo, address, etc. Currently, whenever a change to the standard email text...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration