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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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User Groups, Folder visibility

Folder visibility Should work the same way as single user privileges. Now if you make a user group - everyone in the group can see all the folders and workbooks (though not the data itself). This makes view cluttered and users belonging to ANY gro...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Function hex2dec

We need a scalar function to convert a hexidecimal value to decimal.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Visualization "Validate Bundle" Error on Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics (Cognos V11)

IBM Cognos Analytics Visualization Customizer (Cognos Analytics - Cognos V11) Error thrown by the Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics when you try to validate a bundle. Note: This only occurs in Cognos V11 Visualizations when opened thro...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Information on SSL certificates with Planning Analytics

Improving clarity on the rules around SSL certificates in planning analytics, particularly when clients want to use their own already signed certificates. So above all we need clarity on exactly what can and cannot be done with certificates from d...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Recognition of lower level regions in maps

Maps should have the ability to resolve lower level regions. such as boroughs, townships, etc. For example, Canadian regions such as Kanata, Nepean, etc. which can be mapped as points and not shapes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration