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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Retention of Formatting in Planning Analytics for Excel Viewer

When using Planning Analytics our Developers create standard views for users so that they can easily see important information in the system. In the RDP Perspectives Cube Viewer you can add formatting to these views e.g #,###;(#,###) which when th...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Provide DSKEYLBL option in TEMPLATE utility

Currently there is no DSKEYLBL option in TEMPLATE utility, so if we want to encrypt the output dataset, we can not influence the allocation thru TEMPLATE.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW Member names need ability to used Default Alias

We need to be able to set the Dimension Members on the right to a default Alias.We have many code names at the element level that are not user friendly or have changed. So showing the base code in the members does not work.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

64bit Interface for PL/I Compiler

When using 64bit PL/I Compile with DB2, the compile needs to copy all parameters before the SQL database access below the bar, and back afterwards. Also, the each access to DB2 s dynamically allocated and deallocated. All in all, this results in a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.10 Custom Group Issue

when a report is created using a model level filter with a dimension and measure column, all the values present in dimension column are not getting displayed when a custom group is defined on that dimension column, instead only few values are disp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Automatic refresh of object list after reopening Excel and changing the security

When reopening Planning Analytics for Excel (Excel) after modifying the security, the list of the accessible objects is not refreshed until we click on the refresh button of PAfE. This is confusing in some situation. Is it possible to make the ref...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration