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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.

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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Close report set as homepage

When setting a report as the home page, we want the option at any time during the session to close that report and then return to the default home page.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Excel Spreadsheet Tabs when using Microsoft plug-in

When using the Cognos Microsoft plug-in to run a report via Excel, the report output is always to a single tab in the spreadsheet even when the report has pages setup to do tabs. We would like the Excel Spreadsheet to be generated with separate tabs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Support for IBCS Reporting Standards

Most of the reporting standards of IBCS (Hichert) are currently not supported. Examples: Data Labels on charts / Legend within the chart Fixed colors for scenarios in charts / meaningful color selection Chart Types (Waterfall) etc.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA loader message HLOU5902S appearing in a Db2 utility running in batch address space.

Issue : DB2 utility running a check index all on a non-accelerated table(space) gave below messages HLOU5902S and HLOU5903W that appear misleading; when the accelerator loader should not be coming into picture here. The DSNUPROC for the DSNUTILB h...
6 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration