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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Add prefix or postfix to the report name upon saving the report.

We have a request from user. When the user enters a name to save the report in Cognos Analytics, is it possible to have an option to add some text (such as FOUO) to the report name either before or after what they enter?
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Trace logging for Zelle Ready Contacts API (ZPSS) interaction

Why? Because we need logs in order to triage issues for Zelle Ready Contacts/EWS interactions.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Zelle 1 Not under consideration

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TopCount function loses logic when drilling up

TopCount function is used in Dimensional reporting (ex top 10). With Interactivity set to Yes: drill down works fine but when drilling up, the topcount logic is lost. With Interactivity set to No: drill down works fine and when drilling up, the to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to auto upload custom theme and extension

We need the ability to auto upload custom theme and extension instead of performing manual steps.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
10 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Share report output with e-mail

In Cognos 10, we could e-mail from within a runned report and even a ad-hoc analyze from workspace advanced, In Cognos Analytics 11 This feature is missing.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vertical Scroll Bar color in List Visualization

In Dashboarding the List Visualization displays a vertical scroll bar. When using a dark color background for the List Visualization the scroll bar remains white. This makes the Visualization visually unappealing. Request that the scroll bar color...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy a report causes broken links

When copying a development version of a report to live, the report is overwritten, but all report views are broken, even though the location of the report and name remain the same.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration