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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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DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Traffic light Status Icon in circle shape

Could you please help us to get the Traffic light status icons only as circle shape for all color green, red, yellow . Currently we have traffic light status as Green icon in Circle shape, Red icon as square shape, Yellow icon as diamond shape. Pl...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

request to pass report xml through form parameter to run report with modified xml

Hi, we are trying to build a form page/url with parameters to run cognos analytics report (cognos 11 report with Interactivity set to Yes) like the way we do in cognos 10. in Cognos 10, we used to post the following parameters to run the report si...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Use a Ctrl-Click to open PAW Items in a new tab?

Is it possible to modify PAW to open the selected item in a new browser tab when the control key (on windows) is held down when the hyperlink is clicked – just like all other hyperlinks? For example, it would be great to be able to click on “Admin...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Azure SQL Server as a database option for Cognos Command Center

Currently Cognos Command Center only allows connection to SQL Server through either integrated or SQL authentication. With growing popularity of the Microsoft Azure SQL Server it will be extremely useful if such connection option can be added with...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration