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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Filter Linked Visualizations When Filtered Field Exists in the Visualization

Linked visualizations currently only highlight when a value is selected in another visualization containing the same field; if a visualization does not contain the same field, then values are filtered. We need all linked visualizations to behave c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

optimiser to consider workfile size to determine to use a sort operation

Hi, were coping with a -904 00C90084 or 00C90085 DSNDB07 during a simple left outer join. Apparently the optimiser is not smart enough to determine wether or not to use a sort operation because his lack of knowledge about the sort work file alloca...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Icon 'Suppress Zero' looks the same when clicked and not clicked.

We'd like to have an icon change i.e. to depressed when zeros are suppressed, so it's clear from the main window if zeros are suppressed, as per Server Explorer cube view.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Case TS000932532 - Load should be able to bypass a GENERATED-ALWAYS-from-variable column

ProblemA load on a table containing a certain type of GENERATED ALWAYS column fails with the very odd message "Unexpected load gencol section".Research pointed out that LOAD cannot handle in any way a GENERATED ALWAYS column getting its informatio...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

custom Story templates

Currently, we must copy/paste a pre-built Story each time a user wants to develop a Story using the company's standard presentation template. A customized, globally accessible Story template as well as custom slide templates (e.g.: title page, con...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show session_id - port relationship

It would be nice to see which ports / DBSERVERNAMEs / DBSERVERALIASs are being used by session ids. Either through an onstat command or sysmaster tables.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Support for imbedded SQL comments in DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT

Full support of imbedded SQL comments in DB2 DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Possibility of disabling download on data based on confidenciality

There are customers who want their users to be able to access information but to not be able to download the information if it is tagged as confidential.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration