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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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Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Apply & retain formatting to exploration views cell in Server format mode

In Exploration view and with server formats turned on (not excel formats), users want to be able to highlight or reformat a cell or cells and then for PAX to keep that cell intersection during navigation of the exploration view. Currently formatti...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Control Over Fully Interactive Toolbar

Being able to control what users within a role see allows you to setup one Dashboard for your entire population of users(no matter what level of expertise they have at running and understanding a report/data. Fully Interactive (FI) toolbar gives a...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

timeout warning popup window (I wanted to check if there is any way we can set "Popup Window" for timeout.)

I wanted to check if there is any way we can set "Popup Window" for timeout. We have currently 60 Minutes time out set. What we want an alert window showing that the session is about to expire.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DSNTEP2 number of rows printed is incorrect

DSNTEP doesn't count correctly the number of rows printer after 999999 rowsIt should be extended to more digits
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable SQL Pushback for SPSS Modeler using Cognos Packages

Enable SQL Pushback for SPSS Modeler using Cognos Packages. Today if we use Cognos packages as a source for SPSS Modeler then performance isn't nearly as good as going directly to the database due to the lack of SQL pushback. Using Cognos packages...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Steve tasks

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22015168
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release