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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.

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Allow Columns to be Reordered in Data Modules

Today, it is not possible in a Data Module to change the order of columns from the existing order of the underlying data source. This functionality should be added to Data Modules
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

Please Add Red Hat 9 as the support OS for IBM DataStage 11.7 or the next available version of DataStage

We are currently on DataStage 11.7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.9 which will be out of support soon. We need to migrate our DataStage installation for Red Hat version 9. We need DataStage 11.7 to support Red Hat 9.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Subset grouping in logical folders

Have the possibility to group subsets into various folders/sub-folders to make them easier to consume by the end user. A large user base can result in a large number of public subsets that can result in confusion when scrolling through endless lis...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Appending Month Name or Fiscal Period to the PDF Report Output

The requirement is whenever we schedule a report can we get the current month/ fiscal period appended with the report name once we get the output in View history ex :- ABC_DEC2017 or ABC_DEC_FY-17 where ABC is the name of the file? I need this DEC...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email notifications on Reporting Framework Generation status in IBM OpenPages

Why it is useful? Generating reporting framework generation in IBM Openpages takes a longer time from 4 hours - 8 hours or sometime even more upto 40 hours. It is not possible to keep monitoring whole time during the process. Many times it gets fa...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Not under consideration

Calendar Month added to filter Operations

​ In order to create a monthly overview as part of a filter condition, you currently have to use the "In the range" operation and enter a start and a end date. This period must be renewed regularly. In order to automate this process, it should be ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration