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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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Provide Support for Office 365 with Cognos applications

Request Office 365 be supported as an export target for BI Server reports and Viewer for Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Analysis for Excel.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Store Data Connection in Job

We deliver several (20+) data sets to our clients in a multi-tenant environment. These datasets are deployed with demo data. They must copy these to a secured tenant folder in order to update them with their own data. We provide a pre-defined job ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Option for Cognos admins to proxy as another user

One feature that would be so helpful for Cognos administrators is the ability to see what a particular user sees, to simulate what the particular user is experiencing. There is a similar feature available for multitenancy for admins to see what a ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Improve Look, Flexibility and augment the properties on Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) Prompts

PLEASE start improving your PROMPTS in your Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) I've been at this since Cognos 6, 7 8 and 10You prompts are old and don't do much.AND YES, even though some IBM reps claim IDnV PROMPTS aren't important, th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Message for START DATABASE

Message for LOG MSTR of the command START DATABASE and STOP DATABASE.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration