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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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New TurboIntegrator/Rule function to obtain an Unique ID

In our on-premise application, a tremendous number of TI processes are executed simultaneously, requiring to be identified uniquely in the system in order to avoir locks. Historically we used a combination of 'RAND()' and other information to gene...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make it easier when using of Report Variables

In cognos 10, when you were conditionally formatting an object across multiple values -- it was relatively easy to turn on the functionality for each value -- and it was relatively easy to turn it off or revert to the Default/Other value (by doubl...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Support for live editing of the dialog while working with multiple people

As a conversation developer it would be nice to have functionality that supports working with multiple developers on the same dialog from different computers, without having to have refresh the browser screen every time.
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

allow CREATE FUNCTION with RETURNS TABLE to use SQLPL

Today (in V12 <and maybe earlier>) it is possible CREATE FUNCTION using SQLPL and RETURN a value (of any data type). This is pretty cool.. and powerful. This is useful to perform complex SQLPL operations inside the UDF (LANGUAGE SQL). For ex...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COMP - provide an option to write the output to a table

We have a lot of objects being uncompressed today and where we like to check, if compression would be usefull. Therefore DSN1COMP is a great tool, but it requires us, to check each output manually. That to much effort to do it for all uncompressed...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration