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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:


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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,


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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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Add type of execution in activities view

Currently there is no easy way to differentiate between different kind of executions in Cognos in activities view and my schedules and subscriptions view. There are the following types of executions: page preview run from Report Authoring run ad h...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UUID support

Provide support for UUIDs. Eg - function to create , format and default value for column.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Show members for relational data in Reporting like in 11.1.5 Dashboards

As of CA 11.1.5 members can be shown for and used with relational data in Dashboards and Data Modules. That would be a great feature in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support required for Renaming Objects

As part of our developer self service for schema change approach, and new table a developer creates is added to a 'new objects' Db2 database - in an implicit tablespace. The DBA will subsequently come along and move the table to an explicit tables...
9 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add CA integration with Github

We would like to have native cognos analytics integration to github to store all sources/specs (reports/dashboards/..) to implement easily CI/CD. Today we use third party tools to version and deliver but with github integration it would be more na...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

QWT: Incorporate the same unit and costs as SQL/PA

We want QWT to incorporate the same unit and costs as SQL/PA (same QUNIT costs and dollar equivalent costs). We use these costs to compare expected performance of a query across the 30 production regions we manage. our management is always looking...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wildcard Search Functionality - Planning Analytics for Excel (PAx)

Could you please look at introducing the traditional wildcard search into the dimension selection editor for PAx, specifically PAx is currently unable to do the (?) wildcard search i.e. single character search. This was achievable in both TM1 Pers...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in Cognos

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in CognosThe map stays at worldview TS001308541
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration