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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Add Edit in Preview Mode Default Action to report properties

Adding a default action of "Edit in preview mode" to report properties would help with lots of users who are using Analysis Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced in C10 get more quickly customized with Cognos Analytics as context filters and metadat...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX - Show attributes in exploration view

The exploration view is the most common way to show a cube view in Excel. However, it is not possible to display attributes of the dimensions which in my opinion is a big restriction because it will force us to use a DBRA function, but it is not e...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IIDR Management Console incompatible to DB2 LUW LOAD Utility.

Change Data Capture (CDC) Subscriptions mirroring from DB2 LUW (Linux) to Event Server (JMS) are constantly failing due to some LOADs performed on DB2 LUW side. We must manually recycle affected LOAD table whenever they fail to restart the subscri...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add support for .NET 6 and Linux OS in CPLEX APIs

We developed a product based on .NET 6 that relies on CPLEX core functionalities and we need to make it run both on Windows an Linux operating systems. The .NET 6 libraries are platform independent but the CPLEX Optimization Studio only provides a...
over 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Copy repoted values btw periods in Controller Web

Possible to copy data (selected forms) for a company, from a previous period, in Controller Web.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration