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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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An Easy way to create calculation based on 2 values on same Column.

Users often do calculations between periods or scenarios.When a package is multidimensional create a calcul between 2 members is easy. But this is not the case when a package is relational, create a calculation between 2 values based on same colum...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The function LENGTH () also for BLOBs / CLOBs

Unfortunately, there is no SQL statement that returns the size of the blob. You have to use an external program to get such information. I wish the sql function length() worked for BLOBs/CLOBs.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Copy and Rename Audit Log not containing target location

Currently, whenever a user Renames or Save As.. a report, this log entry only shows the source report, not the destination. So Can you have the Audit also create an entry of the target? Possible fix would be that an operation of MOVE or MOVE or MO...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to CC and BCC for bursted reports

When bursting a report to an email address the client would like the option to also specify CC and BCC fields instead of all recipients being in the ""To"" field.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Copy other users my folder content to team content

As an administrator , while moving code from one environment to other or upgrading, we need to copy the user's my folder content into public folders/team content and move it back to my folders after the code deployment. I dont see this option in 1...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replacing data in Archive Enabled Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In Archive Enabled Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old dat...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable SAML Support for Cognos Gateway Web servers (IIS /Apache) SSo

SAML Configuration support for Cognos Web servers /Gateway
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formats should be Saved with Views

Currently when a user saves an MDX View from the cube viewer in Pafe the format state is not saved with the view. Formats should be saved with the view, they represent a fundamental part of the viewing experience. All users would benefit from this...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration