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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute more than one ALTER TABLESPACE statement at a time on Statement Execution Prompt screen

If we want to alter a series of tablespaces in a database, for example to move them to another bufferpool, change the Close Rule, compress them, or set them to LOGGED/NOT LOGGED, in Db2 Administration Tool we have to set up and execute the ALTER T...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lookup with multiple reference links

Lookup Stage with multiple reference link does not mention on which link duplicatates occur.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Expanding Messages DSNB355I and DSNB356I

MSG DSNB355I / DSNB356I did not give information for the affected object and page. So any reaction and reason search on these Messages is not possible. Please expand the message information for the object information with DBID.PSID.#partno.#pageno.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rename Auto-Generated Relative Time Members (Cube Designer)

Within Cube Designer, the ability to rename the auto-generated relative time members would be useful, for example to change the label of "Year to Date" to "Current Year To Date", or "CYTD".
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control/Force RTS Fabrication

There exists a fundamental issue whereby if a query predicate is > HIGH2KEY then the optimiser always estimates cardinality of 1.For date/time related columns this is an issue as there may always be data beyond HIGH2KEY even immediately after r...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Multiple periods on Reconciliation Report

Multiple periods on a Reconciliation Report to be made available.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation.Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to specify the alert message that should be sent to receivers

Databand currently uses a default message template for our alert receivers. The template includes the fields that are considered to be the most relevant/important in evaluating an alert at a high level. Since many customers have escalation policie...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Feature 0 Under review

Island (Enterprise Browser)

Many companies are migrating to "Island" for increased security, and we would like this browser to be supported by Cognos. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration