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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Move or copy reports (including custom step options) between different jobs

Moving a report (including the custom step options) from one job to another job is too complicated. The only option to do this is to delete the report in one job and add the report in the other job. So you have to define the step options again whi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Localize folders and books captions in Planning Analytics Workspace

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Easier way to implement name change of 'My Content' and 'Team Content'

We are migrating thousands of users from Cognos 10.2.1 to Cognos 11.1.4. For transparency we would like to keep the naming of 'My Folders' and 'Public Folders'. Currently in Cognos 11, it's 'My Content' and 'Team Content'.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand RETPD in template to 5 digits

RETPD parm in the template should allow 5 digits with a value up to 93000
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DR4A V1.2 Sequence not replicated

After insert on capture side on table with autonumber column, data is inserted, but sequence is not replicated on apply side. You can follow the following steps to recreate the scenario. CREATE LARGE TABLESPACE "TSD_DBA_TEST" IN DATABASE PARTIT...

Trigger jobs command line by ensuring failover

To trigger the jobs(which is a collection of reports) from external to the cognos system, we see a trigger utility available.trigger.sh http://loca lhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch username password namespaceID triggername We see that trigger.sh a...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI integration using LDAP group authorization takes 20 seconds to login into Cognos BI

Logon into Cognos BI takes 20 seconds when LDAP groups are used for authorizations. Please provide sub-group starting point for searching LDAP groups.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix cluser technology

when running the write application on the SDS node, the performance is very bad. and customer hope to change the architecture. with oracle RAC and DB2 purescale, the customer could run the different application (for example one is CRM, the other i...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration