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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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Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Online Constraint name renaming capability

MR0803067232 DBDB2D/S05008 Expand the ALTER-TABLE–Statement with an RENAME-Clause or add a RENAME-CONSTRAINT-Statement which renames the constraint name online.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open a URL in a separate tab when pressing and holding CTRL key

There is no convenient way to open a URL in a new browser tab in Cognos 11, for example opening a report in Authoring in a new tab.Pressing and holding CTRL and clicking on a URL is commonly used for opening a URL in a new tab. Not so in Cognos 11...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add quick edit to Grid View

Users really like the new Quick Edit, but want to be able to use it on a Grid view of objects, not just on a grid within a task view. In particular, since the grid view within a task view only shows 10 objects at a time, users have become accustom...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics content toggle menu functionality ehancement

The normal behavior in cognos analytics is if you run a report the report output shows up in the drop menu, then you can toggle away or close it if you don't need it anymore. That's fine except when you want to run the same report multiple times w...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

STATUS_CHANGE_TIME Colum doesnt exist in in mon_get views

We are currently working to migrate all our SNAP views to MON_GET views/Functions as SNAP views caused a response spike in our PROD environment recently.We are using STATUS_CHANGE_TIME columns of sysibmadm.applications to check lock waits on the d...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copied objects should not retain the "Created" and "Modified" dates of the object it's copied from

Copied objects retain the "Created" and "Modified" date of the object from which they are copied. Please change this so these dates default to the current date/time when the object is created (copied). This would be more meaningful and helpful. Th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Projects Id needs to be deleted from catalog assets when the project is removed.

Project name is not captured in the connections table whereas project ID is available. If the project name is deleted, then related project id also should be removed from the Catalog assets.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration