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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use Questions in Calculations

While Questions for a Questionnaire Assessment are not a full OpenPages object type, they are availalbe in reporting and via the UI. In order to utilise them more fully, it would be great to have the ability to retrieve answer values from Question...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Not under consideration

Masking function with GRANT per column

Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Possibility to use custom fonts in Cognos Analytics On Demand

Many times customers want to customize report look and feel to corporate standard. Fonts are one part of that. At the moment in Cognos Analytics On Demand there is no possibility to load custom fonts that corporate is using.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Allow REORG TABLESPACE DROP_PART on PBG UTS with a DATA CAPTURE CHANGES table

We have a near 24x7x365 application with IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Multi-Uni Queue Replication configured between two Db2 subsystems. A Multi-Uni configuration is an IBM solution for bi-directional replication that is configured with ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Column formatting to auto show full contents of cells

Users currently have to set the column width of all columns independently, and this is not saved as part of the view definition, which means it has to be done each time the view is opened.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW on Linux should support WEKA Filesystem

DB2 LUW (on Linux) should support the Weka Filesystem. https://www.weka.io/resources/white-papers/wekaio-architectural-whitepaper The WekaFS is available on Amazon Cloud (AWS) and allows snapshot functionality (during suspend I/O) which is current...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Dashboard List Visualization Direction Property

Add a property to the list visualization that allows users to specify a vertical or horizontal list.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wrong result from reading Archive Enabled Tables with GET_ARCHVIE set to Y

When reading Archive Enabled Tables we set a value for the global variable GET_ARCHIVE in order to get the appropriate result. If we set it to N only the base table is read. If we set it to Y we want both the base table and the archive table to be...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration