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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.

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Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

InsteadOF SQL

It is common in the database world (DB2 but all the others I have worked with are the same) to have a separate product installed that generates code and submits it to the database for processing. Eventually, you will encounter SQL that doesn't per...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox field type & assoc. formula in Salesforce need to be able to be visible in Cognos Analytics with a direct connection

We have made a direct connection from Cognos Analytics to Salesforce.com. We are able to see all Salesforce fields in Cognos with the exception of 2 crucial ones that make the connection useless without them. The one field is called NDA_C and is a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Getting rid of "You have unsaved work" dialog box is not intuitive

It isn't intuitive that, in order to get of "You have unsaved work" dialog when editing the report, the user needs to click "Cancel" and then "Edit" button.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube Measures and sql

Add the ability per cube via an advanced setting to have the mdx query engine send one sql to the databsse for all measures on the report at the same time rather and one sql for each measure. The measure threshold setting does not satisfy this whe...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fix the interface so that entry "Run History" and "Report output versions" look like editable fields

In v11.0.8, the "Run History" and "Report output versions" on a report are greyed out and appear as though the user cannot edit the quantities (see Attachments tab for screenshot). We opened a support ticket to figure out what security setting con...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Facilitate CDC Management Console metric's seletion

The selection of a set of metrics for one, ans specially, more than one subscription is tedious. We should be able to (all would be perfect, any would be good):- Be able to pre-select more than one subscription and activate the same set of metrics...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

support of CDC against Informix HDR and RSS instances

Need use the CDC API on RSS instance and see the change of the table into this process during the connexion.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration