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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Data modules - Possibility to control access to different data sources

We want to control which data sources (Packages, Data sets, Files, Data Modules, Databases) our customers could use when they create and edit data modules. Currently there is no possibilty to restrict the available data sources. Initially they sho...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Ability to set and edit saved parameters on Data Sets

We have a data set that contains prompt parameters to filter the results. We would like to be able to set and edit user saved parameter values without having to edit the data set. Similar to reports and report views, it would be great if we can se...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Copy a tab from one dashboard to a another dashboard

I would like to have an option to copy whole tabs from dashboard 1 to dashboard 2. I know the option pins, but that is only for items. The option copy tabs is necessary for my management dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support for BLU tables

Trigger support is part of many replication technologies e.g.- ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE- trigger based Qrep- SAP zero downtime upgrade
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Graded Scale conditional formatting to Reporting Lists and Crosstabs, and Dashboard crosstabs

Excel has Graded Scale conditional formatting... when we are asked to replicate a report that uses Graded Scale formatting, it is not possible in Cognos
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality level

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new features in newer versions of Informix. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This w...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration