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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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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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Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Customisation of reconciliation reports

Cognos should allow customisation of the reconciliation reports ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' and 'Intercompany Balance' reports) to include the space for sign-off, name and designation of the preparer and reviewer/approver, along with the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Capability to provide review comments against individual analysis/forms

It would be helpful if the Controller allows the reviewing entity/reviewer to provide review comments against individual submissions (forms or analysis within the form, where applicable) reported by the subsidiaries in Cognos. The reporting entity...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Enable InfoSphere CDC for Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

We want to run the Microsoft SQL Server agent in a container on the mainframe. Which requires the agent to be ported to Linux. When running the agent on the mainframe it will be much easier to manage high availability of the whole CDC solution.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Legend title sizing based on space in visualisation

The Legend on visualisations in Planning Analytics Workspace is limited to a certain number of characters and is not dependent on the amount of space available in the visualisation. This means that some element names are cut off in the legend of t...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Searching for widget properties in PAW

We could probably debate forever about what properties of a widget belong in which category but, for example. Under Visualization , Column and Row Headers we have options to do with the format of the headers. Under Custom, Table Style, we hav...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Increase dasd volume limit beyond 1 disk

With our current storage configuration, CDC is giving a IEC032I E37-08 on our sysut1. It's our understanding that CDC does not currently allow multivolume datasets. We're requesting that 'feature' be added.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Increase width of scroll bars in PAW

PAW scroll bars are very narrow compared to standard window scroll bars. The impact of this, especially in "Set Editor" is that you have to hover the mouse "exactly" in order to use click and drag to move the scroll bar. Eventually you give up and...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Forward Repair Screen Sort Options

We are looking to have the Forward Repair monitoring screen to be sorted in Date Order so we can easily locate the processing day while viewing the screen. See attached.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Future consideration