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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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Missing graphical animation indicator for Suspend icon

When Suspending a report there is no graphical animation indication that states if it is working/processing, etc. There should be some indicator implemented for user friendliness.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Changing The Default Pinned Toolbox Items

By default in Cognos Analytics 11, in the "reporting" (report studio) tool there are 6 default pinned toolbox items. So, when you click the "+" sign, you see list, crosstab, chart, etc. I know you can change your pinned items at a user level, but ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support or warn of null (linklisted) DB2 STEPLIB and RUNLIB

DB2 Admin Tool customization via IBM TCz (IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS) requires the user to specify both the ‘DB2 load libraries’ and the ‘DB2 run library’ for each DB2 subsystem. There is no 'option' to specify: 1) A single set of libraries for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dark mode

A dark mode would be great, much easier on the eyes!
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Show more than one alias in a report

In a report in PAW or PAX it would be helpful to have the possibility to show two alias simultaneously in a report. For example to show both the an ID and the text in two columns in a report.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow editing X axis of violin chart

If I am making a violin chart for a variable where the values follow a certain order, for example, days of the week, I don't have a way to put the chronological order on the X axis.The same thing happens if the values of my variables are ranges, f...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Permit relative proportional spread using a consolidated element that has negative weighted elements.

Let's say you want to spead 10000$ over 12 months in broker fees and you want to base your spread on net sales (a level 2 element for example). If the net sales has deductions for transport (weight is -1), you will get an error stating that there ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Burst list title in header in Cognos reports

[PH03629] Bursting in pdf report - pdf burst items missing pages and outside written area
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration