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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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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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LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt dash line

The default first two lines - header section and dash line. Remove dash line and instead replace 'All' in the second line
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Insert spacings into list/table visualizations for readability

Our client requested the following functionality in PA Workspace: Insert empty Columns/Rows as placeholder for readability into exploration/list/table visualizations. We managed to insert some via basic calculations and formatting the respective ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

QMF EE for websphere Edit menu to have copy, paste, replace feature

QMF EE for websphere when editing a query, edit menu is grayed out which lets copy, paste, find and replace text within a query. Currently, the workaround is use keyboard short cuts.
about 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Account details in Activity Log for Calculation Engine Functions

When a data field is updated via the calculation engine, a generic system account appears in the Activity log. It would be more useful for the user account of the user whose action triggers the calculation engine update to appear in the Activity L...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Restart of redirected recover

It should be possible to restart redirected recover in the same manner as you can restart the standard recover utility. When running redirected recover of a large group of tables, it is a waste of time to have to restart if an error is encountered...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration