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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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Add a recycle bin for administrators

Users delete items by mistake and it would be nice to have a way to retrieve those items easily. It could empty on a rolling cycle to reduce size
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of On premise Life Cycle Manager with IBM Cloud

Currently, It is not possible to use on premise LCM to access Cognos analytics on the cloud current environments and we get SSL errors. It will be good to have LCM available on premise to be able to control access and utilize Citrix environment fo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How to Change text of summary

Hi, I have a requirement where user would like to change the text of summary (which displays at last for list and crosstab report) to total or any any other meaningful name based on the ouput during the creation of dashboard. However, we have the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Multiline Labels on Map Visualisations

I would like to be able to display Multi Line Labels on the Map Visualisation. This would allow me to display a customer address over several lines like an address label. I have tried appending the address details separated by Carriage Return, or ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple retention periods for OnBar

Multiple retention periods for OnBar. Allow two or more retention periods to be defined for OnBar backup. For example, 0 – 60 Days: Keep all backup objects, Level 0, 1, 2 and Logical Logs61 – 120 Days: Keep selected backup objects, Level 0 and...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve Tab - Filter for Low Confidence but not Irrelevant

I would like to be able to filter logs to find user utterances that are not irrelevant but are less than 50% (for example) confidence so that I can decide whether they were correctly understood or whether they should be added to the examples for a...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add option to DCLGEN utility to support conditional compilation based on whether the SQL option is used

Some non-Db2 programs use the member created by the DCLGEN utility as a copy member because they are processing a file with the same layout as the COBOL portion of the DCLGEN member. The DCLGEN generated member contains a DECLARE TABLE statement, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the limitation in ISTOOL for Extension Mapping Document import for CP4D

We opened a ticket for the error (file.csv exceeds 5120KB, skipping it...) we were getting when we tried to import extension mapping document using istool in IIS 1.7.1 (see ticket # TS012233188). IBM tech told us that this is a limitation for ISTO...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Showing sender Full name instead of email address when cognos report is scheduled to email report

Hi, When we scheduled a report and select the option "send by email”, Report is delivered to our inbox with full email address instead of its name, for example if I schedule a report it will come to my inbox with email address AB_CD@ssga.com , o...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration