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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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Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

All/This tabs filter - ability to exclude values from a filter

Would like to the ability to exclude values from an all/this tab filters. I.e we show account types, if we want to show just expense account type, we either have to add the filter to the canvas instead of as a filter or go through. The Account typ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow SQL to reference a Temporal table and Transparent archiving table in the same statement

We have adopted widespread use of System Time functionality on our application tables. We have need to use transparent archiving as well, since we have table where data churn is significant and we don't have need to track row changes - just the fi...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow functional admin users to create or update existing chores without ADMIN rigth

Avoid functional administrators to be able to update the codes (TI processes, cube rules, security) by removing the ADMIN right but by doing that, functional admin are not anymore able to update/create chores, which is very important in their acti...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to force IBM LSF Application Center (PAC) to convert userID to lower case

We have PAC 10.2.0.9 hosted on linux environment. Users access it from Windows systems. As PAC is case sensitive, users cannot login until they use lower case user ID to login. So, there should be a way to force PAC to convert user ID to lower cas...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle DB name change with CDC Target

We would like to have a means to change the Oracle Database name for existing subscriptions within Infosphere Change Data Capture. When our Oracle database migrated to the Exadata environment, the database name changed which required dropping and ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Filtering view based on element attributes

Users often have to slice and dice data in views and visualizations for analysis and data input. Today you either have to open the set editor to filter elements, use a selector widget or place the dimension on the canvas for easy selection of spec...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration