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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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Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Whenever Data Assets are shown in the CP4D UI, there should be a link to take it to the "Run SQL" page, if it is a virtualized asset.

The (data) assets inside CP4D could originate from anywhere, however if they are from Data Virtualization (Watson Query), then users can perform SQL based analysis on it. These assets could be presented to users in different channels 1. Inside a c...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

OPTIMIZER IGNORE INDEX indexcreator.indexname

Looking to replace NPI with DPSI. DSPI is created, and would like to verify that all SQLs that were using NPI, when Rebound/executed dynamically would either a) use either newly created DPSI or another index on the table and b) have run time perfo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add support for inline file attachment editing of Microsoft Visio documents

Users can open Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages. Every time a user clicks save within a file that is opened in this way, the file is saved in the OpenPages file repository. However, other users cannot see the changes until the file i...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support for datetime with timezone

Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names: “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZO...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Parallell hierarchies in extended dimensions

Today you can just have one hierarchy when it comes to the 4 different extended dimensions. That is a problem when we compete with competitors. Due to that the storing is on the lowest level couldn´t it be possible to have parallell hierarchies? ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Auto Refresh Reports

The ability to easily set a report to automatically refresh every x seconds/ minuets /hours The actual time between refreshes should be configurable. This could be as a property of the report, and apply to all data in the report, a property of the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Package to Data Module

Could IBM provide a tool or a way to easily convert an existing Cognos Package as a Data Module? This will help with faster adoption as we would not need to manually re-create a FM model in Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OIDC support for the Rest API

Currently OIDC support is only available for SymRest for workload submission. But it is not in place for RESTful API reference for EGO. it will be good to bridge the gap.
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

expose an API for getting list of entitled resources ( i.e. for getting a list of items in a grid view)

We have many downstream applications connect to OpenPages via API for various actions. Currently, the application user has to logon to OpenPages UI to see the list of issues or actions plans that they are entitled to see. We have requirement to ex...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review