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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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Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

PAW - ability to execute chores / processes while not in edit mode

Ability for a user to not be in edit mode, and execute a chore / process (subject to security)
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bursting Reports to Email from Cognos on Demand

Bursting reports that are migrated to Cognos on Cloud no longer burst to email recipients. This is an extremely useful future when generating reports for sales teams where the region/area of the report does not change but the person responsible do...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Support of encrypted fields by Anonymization API

OpenPages 8.0.0.1 introduced the capability to anonymize data through a set of API methods. These methods do not work on encrypted fields, meaning that there is currently no way to anonymize data if it is stored in fields that are encrypted.When s...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Not under consideration

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Rename folder names on home page

Hello There, We are looking for a way to rename the 'Team content' and 'My content' folders on Cognos Analytics home page. This feature is available on earlier Cognos 10.X versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration