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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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Select and Search Prompt at global parameters

to pick values for global parameters by a "Select and Search Prompt" (available at reports) would make it more comfortable
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Setting active sandbox

The users of our application create several sandboxes for different scenarios. We have a module which allows these users to load either in a common base or in a sandbox. But since the list can be long, we want the loading to be done on the active...
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Need an ability to set our own color to a specific value in treemap color by value visualization

currently the Tree map color by value visualization will represent the colors based on values in the map. but if we want specify a particular color to a specific value for example "white" color "zero 0" value there is no way.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ coul...
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel Process Process Failure Error Message

System - Planning Analytics for Excel.Actor - User requires meaning Error Message when a process executed from PAX fails.Description - When a process fails in "PAX" the error message is "Object Reference not set to an object of a reference"this is...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting for rows to buffer in Planning Analytics Workspace

When editing dimensions or browsing data via Planning Analytics Workspace, the grid continously loads to rows when scrolling down. This creates a very poor user experience and the idea is to make it possible to control the amount of rows/cells tha...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Output should allow for alternate XML formats

XML output format does not provide for the tag names and cannot be used for import to other applications. Currently, the only option is to export to cvs and then create a program to parse the data. This defeats the purpose of providing XML as a re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Module Table Repoint

We had some tables moved from one schema to another I couldn't repoint nicely within the native Analytics Data Module compared with what we could with Legacy Framework. I was able to relink the old schema to the new but since we were already using...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Defragment for a dbspace

Add at the 'DEFRAGMENT' SQL Api , the option to defragment an entire dbspace. We have set in our environment tables and partitions with historical data, so, they are tables or partitions who have any changes (include/excluded data). Most of...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration