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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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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

Possible to fetch data from the acquisition register in standard forms, using dimensions in columns.

Today it's not possible to fetch data from the acquisition register when the form is built with dimensions in columns. Controller Web does support standard forms with dimensions in columns and in later versions of CCR Web it's not possible to repo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Bring back support for Virtual View Manager (ODBC) data source

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were using IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager (ODBC) also known as Composite (ODBC) data source to select online a WSDL interfaceand also in Data Manager as package data source.In Cognos Analytics VVM has been deprecated in 11.0.2...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

External Application Server support for Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 has taken off external application server support for its application to be deployed on, till Cognos 10.2.1 we had been using WebSphere ND to host the p2pd and now WebSphere Liberty is being offered out of the box as the only o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Exclude content of hidden folder from search results

In many cases, security requirements dictate hiding a folder from users even though they have read and traverse permissions to it. Content of such folder should not be returned in any search results.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manual assignment of business glossary against technical meta by key business term searching should be assisted by supporting category search function.

After asset discovery processing, user can check whether some business glossary are assigned against technical metas automatically. In addition, user can add manual assignment of additional business glossary against technical metas. In this situat...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Export Story To mp4 video

Add the ability to export a Story to a video file, like .mp4. It should auto-play through all slides (like RFE#100967), and ideally allow for saving at "low" and "high" resolution.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration