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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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Enhance capabilities for welcome page customization

Currently the themes allow a few cosmetic properties to be updated while customizing the welcome page for Cognos Analytics. I was looking to be able to customize the navbarpushbuttonforeground color property but it does not exist, only the navbarp...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rendering of tabs in the dashboard is not available

Tabs in the dashboard cannot be render conditionally. Why?
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

DCadmin.bat dynamic cube utility needs to support SSO

dcadmin.bat does not work for environments with SSO..Baxter has a large complicated global multiple dispatcher environment which is now bring on dynamic cubes... administration of many Dynamic cubes is very painful from within Cognos, sometimes im...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Controller web-to allow fixing of historical rate on company journal

Controller web company journal data entry should allow fixing of historical rate like what the Controller Classic is currently providing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Replication Tasks (CDC) should be ZIIP offloadable

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a product which off loads workload from z/OS. All Task used for loading data, replicating updates, managing the IDAA box is new workload and should be cost efficient according to Mainframe. This means, that ev...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to change paper format and orientation for PDF report

PAW should allow end users to control the paper format and orientation of PDF reports. In CA there is an option for end users to choose the paper size and the orientation of the PDF output. IBM should modify PAW to have a similar function.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Show format Icons for saved output versions

Please show the output format of saved outputs in the reports again similar to C10 so that users can see what format they will download when clicking on a report
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release