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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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documentation upgrade on top of a previous version by using silent instal

In the documentation there is an upgrade process from earlier version :https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_upgrade_upgradeprocess.html#upgrade_UpgradeProcess there is also a docume...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add KeyCloak to the list of supported OpenID Providers

Add KeyCloak to the list of supported OpenID Providers
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Index performance, Provide the indicator show that need to do reorg

Provide the indicator (index level,the percent of pieces) to show it need to do index reorg.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to use expressions or functions in conditional layout for page dependent values.

Add the ability to include the list header only on the first page of the report and not have it repeating across all pages. The conditional statements work fine when in interactive HTML but not in batch (PDF, HTML etc).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Change font size and font colour in the Web Chat integration for WA

While working on a chatbot, using the web chat integration, I found that there's limited things one can customize to change the look and feel of a chatbot. The function updateCSSVariables only admits very few CSS variables. I think that font size ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow genBSON to process a MULTISET datatype

Our problem is to get complex data from the server in the fastest way. Usually, getting data from a parent -> child relation ships, should be done programatically iterating thru multiple resultsets and getting data one by one. Network overhead ...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Commands should apply to result set only when using filtering

When using a command or function on a set of filtered objects, we would like to apply the command or function on the resultset, not the initial set.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration