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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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Facility to manage access by parametrized url on an unauthorized folder

If a user accesses from a third-party portal via a Cognos parameterized url on a Cognos folder to which he does not have rights,the native cognos home screen is displayed with this error message :"Unable to load requested view. Displaying home vie...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a "RUNSTATS Check" report similar to the REORGCHK

Although there is an Automated RUNSTATS, some people prefer to execute RUNSTATS manually. Having some ability to run a report that "Recommends" that a table should have a RUNSTATS performed would assist in making decisions. with thousands of table...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Exclusion of HTML navigation elements in webcrawl

As users of WDS are currently not able to use SDU on crawled web documents, it is impossible to use the field definition and exclusion function WDS provides to exclude unwanted results from the index. In our case, website navigation and footers cr...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

wordpress, drupal, cpanel, etc plugins

With the push to provide easier mechanisms to share Cognos content, I would like IBM to develop plugins for popular website, CRM, and e-commerce providers. The plugin should allow the website owner to define the credentials used, the target conten...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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