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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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Register Windows service without starting it

Would like an option in Cognos Configuration to register the service without starting it (for example having a option available by right-clicking on the IBM Cognos object in the explorer). This would allow the user to then go and modify the servic...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add string data fileds TM1 cube support to Cognos BI

Cognos TM1 cube as a Cognos BI data source is supporting two types of data: numbers and strings. Number data fields works fine in Cognos BI, but there is no support for string data types. Please add string data types support in Cognos BI.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

MDM CE Watson Search results found words highlighting

We would to highlight found string in Watson Search results of MDM CE.For example we search for "ap", then in the search results we see items that have "application" and "apartment".We would like this "ap" in each found word to be highlighted.
over 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Automated Axis title with multiple metrics in Dashboard

In the current dashboard, the product automatically rendering the text "Values" whenever we are trying to use the multiple metrics. IS there any way we can customize it to change to meaningful verbiage
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

spec attribute localized names used in resultset in Elastic Search

Elastic Search currently defaults to the specified locale such as (“en_US”). So it indexes items on elasticsearch, the spec attribute labeling and content gets indexed is based on that locale. However if there is custom attribute localized nam...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

CDC support for MSSQL/Linux as source

CDC already supported MSSQL/Win as source. More customers are deploying MSSQL/Linux, we would like CDC to certify MSSQL/Linux also. Look forward to your reply
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Mapping role to Custom Tools in Java API

In IU when you open Data Model Manager->Security->Role Console and then Custom Tools Map you can map custom tool to role. But it's not possible to do it using Java/ Script API. Please add feature map role to Custom Tool using Java/ Script API.
over 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

'Fred is Red' - Make specific datapoints always have same formatting

When creating visualisations in Planning Analytics Workspace, there is often the problem that similar datapoints will show up differently depending on how you look at it. For example, when doing plan analysis, actual values should always be grey, ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration