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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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Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

best LLC formation service

If you’re looking to form an LLC, you probably already know that there are many options. Many entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the idea of registering a limited liability company themselves, but also don’t have the budget to hire an attorney. ...
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add the concept of project Owner to complement existing project Creator

In addition to project “creator”, each project should have the opportunity to also maintain the current project “owner”. The concept of project owner is important in context of project Collaboration. A project creator may “leave” a project making ...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Better details in Audit log for Calculate ownership process

I have logged a call with IBM (TS006004206) regarding the details that the audit log show on the Maintain > company structure >calculate ownership as the report is not providing detailed enough information to establish what has changed or ha...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a default user temporary tablespace at the database creation

Create a default user temporary tablespace (user_tempspace1 ??) at the database creation.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

In Cube Viewer in PA for Excel there is not a short cut or keycombination to navigate into the dimension and action icon bar

In Cube Viewer in PA for Excel there is not a short cut or a key combination to navigate into the dimension and action icon bar. It is only possible to navigate through the tab key in the table. The Cube Viewer in PA for Excel is a PAW component t...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In PA for Excel in Cube Viewer it is not possible to open the context menue with the short cut shift + F10

In PA for Excel in Cube Viewer it is not possible to open the contect menue with the short cut Shift + F10. The key combination is not working.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration