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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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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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Password Policy configuration for Exports

At the content export in Cognos Administration one can protect the content of the compressed file with a password length of at least 8 characters. As company policies are changing and sometimes more demanding on password policy some configuration ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can't see the QUEUE numbers.

Display the QUEUE number on the screen before the report is executed. This allows users to see QUEUE and know the crowded conditions.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Scheduling via e-mail

As dashboard can be exported in PDF and can also be sent via email, it would be great for our users if Dashboard could also be schedules and users can receive it.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Personnalized Session Parameter

We need to add a Session Parameter available in Frame Work Manager or Report. The purpose is to personnalize a parameter by environnment production, validation, etc in the Cognos configuration context and use it in FM or Report.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

In OMPE v5.4, classic interface, having the ability to edit the Explain reports, for modifyng the text and rerun the Explain

From: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=142711 With Omegamon for DB2 PE v5.40, with PWH configured, from classic interface, I can run Explain function of SQL text in thread active or in SQL cache. The custome...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM Equal for performing AVT 1 on Congos Reports

DAP, which is the IBM recommended tool for performing AVT1 is only supported on the Chrome browser. As Chrome is not a recommended browser for using accessible reports in Cognos, DAP cannot be used to perform AVT1. Firefox ESR is what is recommend...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Using geodata from ArcGIS on Cognos Analytics on Cloud

We have geodata about our system on ArcGIS and we would like to use it to build maps on Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dock Fields closer to the Sources on a Dashboard

I love the dashboard interface changes in v11.1.6. I especially like having the "Fields" open without having to open the visualization. A suggestion I have is to give users the ability to dock the Fields section closer to the Source section.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Large Long String Size NOT supported using FASTMAP

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration