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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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My company has several TV monitors throughout our factory floor we use display Cognos dashboards with performance metrics. We would like to use stories to show more information across multiple slides. One pain point preventing us from implementing...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View report status when Scheduling capability turned off

Client has scheduling capability disabled for dev environment, but users testing reports need to see what reports they are running in the background and the status of those runs.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto fit of PAW objects

Auto fit of the view of PAW objects- charts, cubes doesn't work.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot table

We need the ability to to somehow configure planning analytics (for excel) to show sub totals for the consolidations for selected dimensions in the rows? To be more precise: Let's assume we selected two dimensions in the rows and want to see the s...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 2 Not under consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to get an entry in audit db when report is failed to send an emails

Hi, we have logging enabled to both file and database configured. we deployed the Audit database and successfully logging to that database. If a report is to be emailed to a user and that email fails, we do not get that entry in the Audit database...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration