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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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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,

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  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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Ability to write SQL to build Dashboard visualization

Currently there is no way to control the sql generated by a dashboard. Sometimes a complex query is required to build a visualization. Please add the ability to write queries within a dashboard.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New UI Grid View Missing Horizontal Scroll bar

In New UI on Grid View if multiple column present user has to scroll down at end of the page to use horizontal scroll bar and while scrolling horizontally the header or column headings are goes out of view. - Add additional horizontal scroll b...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Report Output Format data in Audit Package

The report performance is being calculated using Audit package. The performance report will be published to the higher level of management. The report performance should be captured only for the HTML report execution. In the Audit package, there i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Control of default Folder order in Workspace

Want certain folders to be the first in the list by default. Right now the newest folders always show up at the top of the page.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
9 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change to 'Active DB2 Systems' panel

When viewing the DB2 Tools Launchpad and the list of tools installed, enter '?' for a list of active SSIDs. The list that returns includes all DB2 Systems by name, but only the descriptions of the subsystems that match entries in the currently...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Set up Urls

Ability to define URL in Cognos Analytics 11.0.6
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration