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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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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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Allow for the ‘-‘ key to be used as a modifier for hot keys.

There are many limitations to the number of hotkeys that can be used in FTM due to Windows key functions and other conflicts between Shift and ALT with the 10 key pad. Using a modifier outside of the common CTRL, ALT, Shift would allow for a large...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

create a foreign key allowing one to one tables relationships

Our Primary Key and Foreign key constraints always have allowed creaing and ensuring '1 to many' table relationships. After researching, there is no direct way to implement such a case with Informix. The only safe way is to create a primary key on...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Supporting cognos lifecycle manager with Openpages Custom Java Authentication

Cognos LifeCyle Manager is useful for testing and upgrade. It works for other Customer Java Authentication but Openpages Custom Java Authentication embeded on Cognos Analytics is not supporting unofficially.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Capturing activity on audit report from drill-thru links

We created a Cognos report that shows who has accessed specific reporting on our server. However, we are unable to see all the activity for a report that has drill-thru links to other reports. In this case, a user is able to choose between repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

System Audit Log for Share Register & Invt Elim Entries

Entries input through function Data Entry - Shareholdings and Investments are not tracked in system audit log.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include an image in the screen tip option

t would be a good idea to store this image somewhere in the webcontent folder in Cognos installation.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cell Auditor Capability

ON some (but not yet all report types) in PAx you have the capability to get the cell properties. It would be useful to get more information on the results of the cell. Especially if it is referencing an invalid element. Also please expand the pro...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to set the custom login page as default login page using SDK or some background process not from UI manually

We have created a sample login page, welcome page and our Own theme. But we don't want to import them using the UI - Manage-customization- extensions, rather we want to do it using SDK or some process like import content deployment and make them a...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration