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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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PAx needs options to set Auto Calc in Excel to Manual

When pulling up a sheet with multiple tabs of DBRW formulas it is often not the best thing when Excel will Autocalc it on load. Better that the user have an options of setting Auto Calc off or on for Excel by default. Yes this is an Excel Microsof...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration
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Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Search for Users when creating Schedules

When creating an Email Delivery for a Schedule it is possible to search the Cognos and other custom Namespaces for Users, Groups, and Roles for any results that Contain the search text but the search is Case specific. Please enhance the Search Fil...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Label of a linked data module

If a new data module is created, and an existing data module is added, it comes in as a link. Need the ability to change the labels of the linked-in data module. This would include changing the labels of the linked in data module itself as well as...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to role customization for creating report from package menu

We are missing the menu item called "Create report" when right clicking on a package or selecting the 3 vertical dots menu of a package. This is the only place left that a user can create a report that can't be customized in the new features custo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to get an entry in audit db when report is failed to send an emails

Hi, we have logging enabled to both file and database configured. we deployed the Audit database and successfully logging to that database. If a report is to be emailed to a user and that email fails, we do not get that entry in the Audit database...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

deadlock better diagnostic page dump in DIAGPATH

Ref TS000003442, PMR 68950,664,706Ref PMR 67845,664,706In case a deadlock occurs on MDC tables on BID index, diagnostic from Locking Event Monitor is not sufficient to understand deadlock. We need to understand data in conflict pages to check acce...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

BID lock avoidance on MDC tables

2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen. Ref: case TS000003442
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration