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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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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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Option to do Filter for Report without fetching a list of values

When querying from a package in Query Studio the prompt option can be configured in Framework Manager to be an edit box, which prevents millions of values to be retrieved from the database for detail query items. In Report, the Filter for Report o...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flexible OpenPages installation options

Currently the OpenPages Installer runs a series of pre-validation checks with minimal optionality to ignore these checks. A few examples: Forced to install to install (or at least pass validation) OpenPages & Cognos, even if I only want...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Enable OpenPages on CentOS and Ubuntu Linux

We'd like to see support for additional Linux distributions but in particular, CentOS and Ubuntu. This is useful as it will enable a greater, more cost effective, deployment choices across a broader range of cloud hosting platforms.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 5 Not under consideration

DTS stage - DB2 connector local transaction mode support (non-XA)

The Datastage DTS (Distributed Transaction) stage allows use of different connectors as a target. Currently we use Oracle connector but we have a use-case now for targeting DB2 - we have found that the DB2 connector does not support local transact...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hiding Visualization in Dashboard when there is no data

Sometimes on selecting a particular filter, a visualization has no data. It will still occupy space on the dashboard and show nothing. It would be great to be able to hide this visualization when it has no data (how lists behave in report when th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support is required in the DSNTINST CLIST for multi-part dataset aliases

Our DB2 systems use multi-part (qualifier) aliases for various datasets that are normally sub-system specific. e.g. the BSDS and active log datasets for a DB2 system follow the format DSN.<ssid>.BSDS01 DSN.<ssid>.LOGCOPY1.* where...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Drill Thru in PAW

PAW currently displays all drill thru in a standard system style window that users can't interact with. I would like the ability to define the destination of a drill to any of : - a cube view- a web sheet- as a set of filters to another book This ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set Dynamic Axis range for visualizations in 11.1.X

Right now we can't dynamically change the axis range in 11.1.1. Can this feature be added.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Select all the values in a Value Prompt by mouse right click and dragging the cursor

Users do multi-select in value prompt and 10.2.1 used to allow mouse right click and then just drag to multi select records. We will like to have same behavior in 11.1.X with value prompt in reporting.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration