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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 Format option to Run Options in Cognos Analytics 11 Report Authoring

Add Format option in the report authoring tools Run Options dialog so user can View Tabular Data in format other than HTML
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk download attachments/files

Ability to download multiple files (SOXDocument) at once.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Control over grid view column widths

We're finding grid views / embedded grid views have disproportionate column widths (in terms of reader usability/readability). This often impacts us on fields such as Name and Description. If we had the ability to define the column widths ourselve...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Ability To Selectively Deploy Data Sources

We need the ability to have project admins (users, not people with SYSADM rights) export specific data sources from one environment to another, and have that respect the defined permissions. So: if a user wants to migrate a Dynamic Cube data sourc...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSM Explain profile

Hello, Our idea is to use DSM so that users, authenticated in DSM with administrator profile, can do EXPLAIN without the need to have DB2 z/OS operation user credentials, as in the case of Data Collection Credentials. We have a generic user create...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PAW sheet/book refresh after process execution failed through button

A new feature was added in PAW, in order to refresh the book after process execution with a button. But the book is refreshed ONLY if the process ended successfully. It will be great if the book could be refresh also if the process is failed or q...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to call CA11 Dashboard from another application with parameters

Ability to call CA11 Dashboard visualizations and whole dashboard page as a whole from another application with parameters
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

API to import SDU Model to a collection

Currently i can create configurations, create collection and add the config to the collection, update stop words , the only thing I cannot do is import the SDU model. This functionality is requested by few clients as they manage the initial creati...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration