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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.

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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Swap Series and Categories

Add ability to quickly swap series and categories on a visualization - similar to swap columns and rows on a crosstab.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cache in memory dynamic cube data to restart dispatchers without having extended outages to load cube data

Currently our project has about 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups and using package routing. If we have to restart a dispatcher it can take a couple of hours to restart the cube. We do restart our cubes daily or weekly depending on the source ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ViewZeroOut with Undefvals in Rule should not leave Zeroes

In a cube where Zeroes for Entries are needed, the function Undefvals will be used within the Cube Rule. This function works as expected. But when there is the need to clear out all existing values within the cube, usually ViewZeroOut will be used...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TFUI / Dashboard: allow hiding of Worflow Tabs

When users don't have access to Workflow, the Tabs "My Taks", "Subscription Tasks" and "Oversight Tasks" are empty and cause confusion for the users. Please add the capability that these tabs can be disabled for a specific Dashboard in the Dasboar...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Not under consideration

Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition

SQL and XML limits https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0001029.html The maximum size of a LOB object of 4 terrabyte leads to the necessity of partitioning the table just due to this limit. Si...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Show/Hide Last Modified Date for folders within Team Content/My Content

Need to capability to show/hide the last modifed date of folders within Team Content and My Content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add freeze pan ability to work space screen

My client ask for freeze pan ability. The fact that you filter the data on the top ascrren and then you scroll down is very un convenient.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration