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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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alternating colors of rows and columns in report studio crosstab

I want to have an easy way to add alternating colors of rows and columns in a report studio crosstab.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Roll-up on Dynamic Cubes when using security

Making Roll-up available when securing a Dynamic Cube
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Build SQL Statement with host variables

Let’s review this scenario. You just implemented a new COBOL program into production. But some users are not getting the data they expected. You finally realize an SQL statement you are running is not returning any rows. You’re sure the statement ...
9 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration