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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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Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

AI Forecasting - Data Commit Notification

Hello team, While using AI forecasting at a consolidated level, the notification says that forecasting is completed, but the forecasted values do not show up immediately. I understand that the spreading process is still running the background. Sin...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Setting the content defaults globally

In CA 11.2.1 you can set up content similar to Cognos Connection in 10.2 if you change to List View, row size "Compact" and sort by "Type". Unfortunately this has to be set for every browser for every client because this custom settings will be st...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

TM1 Data Snapshot functionality - Copy rule to values in a TM1 cube

The Bedrock data copy TI process is the most basic requirement for a in memory solution. The highest priority would be to achieve this outcome. The following additional requirements would be nice to have on top of the basic requirement: 1. The abi...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Garbled text on the IBM Db2 Data Management Console provisioning instance screen in the service catalog of CP4D v4.8.4 (software version).

When navigating to the IBM Db2 Data Management Console provisioning instance screen from the service catalog in CP4D v4.8.4 (software version), the text becomes garbled as shown in the attached image if the browser's language setting is Japanese. ...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

HPU : external file support for IN predicate

our customer wants to migrate from a competitor's product to IBM HPU. This product supports the following syntax to read a list of arguments for the SQL - WHERE IN predicate from a flat file. The syntax is as follows: SELECT * FROM creator.tbnameW...
26 days ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) on OpenShift: Implement MySQL as StatefulSet

The issue with the MySQL in PAW is that it is implemented as Deployment. When the database pod is rescheduled, there is a chance that the new instance is started before the old instance has finished shutting down. In this situation, both pods writ...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted