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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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Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Support the option of time-delayed replication for subscription

there maybe meet some errant operation while maintain working. When errant transaction happened on source database, the data will be lost both at source/target database with processing CDC replication . during maintain some bank systems, customer ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow counters with lower priority (calculated earlier) to be used within evaluation conditions of higher priority counters

Use case: Users of Safer Payments have the ability to calculate the most common value of a reference attribute. For example, understanding a cardholder's most common grocery store merchant ID is a great way of reducing false/positives. Because man...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

failed logins in auditlog

In the audit logs (WAS_install_path/profiles/InfoSphere/logs) there is no information on failed logins. This information is only logged in the WAS SystemOut.log as Authentication failed.It would be important to have this audit-critical information...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Hide model components from users authorized only to use lower mandators

In large customers such as payment providers and banks usually setups go by multichannel -> channel -> department/customer. These institutions often want to have their centralized sets of rules and profiles that check the transactions indepe...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics integration with Sharepoint

We would like IBM to take up and provide a detailed solution on how to integrate IBM Cognos Analytics 11 with SharePoint
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Multi-Variable Calculations

Currently unable to define a formula as multi-variate and be able to hold one value, enter in another and have it update the remaining variableEx:Margin % = (Rev – Cost)/RevenueScenario 1 – Enter Revenue or Cost and have it update Margin %Scen...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release