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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,

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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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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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Attatch voice message to mobile app reports

Extending on the current capability to annotate/comment an active report from the mobile app, the ability to voice record a comment and attached it to a specific report would greatly improve the use of reports and the application
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reading Data Guard shipped logs stored in ASM

IDR can read logs shipped with Data Guard only if they're being shipped to files. In Oracle 12, logs can be shipped to ASM by Data Guard. We need IDR to be able to read those logs.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Echancement to user security for Life Cycle Manager

Hello, Product - Cognos Life Cycle Manager Purpose: Enhancement to user security We currently have Shared Platform within our company supporting 10+ lines of business with over 2800 users. When using LCM(Life Cycle Manager) we experience some issu...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Support IMS Unload file of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Share private subsets between users

(See attached file for more information) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users use private subsets all the time. For example, they track the progress of their top products by saving them int...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - "Remove" calculation in set editor should remove calculation from the query and not only from the current set

(See attached file for more details) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. When they don’t use it anymore, they simply remove the calculation fr...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Store user defined calculation

End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. However, they have no way to save these calculations in case they want to use it in another view. There’s no workaround, they have to re-create the calculation every time they need it. I've a...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Planning Analytics rounding issue

In a case submitted to IBM: TS008741229 my team discovered that due to the design of Planning Analytics in terms of how it stores values (IEEE-754 Floating Point Double format) we came across scenarios where PA would not round correctly and hence ...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration