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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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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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End your own disconnected session

If you log in and you have an existing active session, Cognos Controller displays a warning message. You can end the active session and start a new one. Many users face the issue of being disconnected from a session and are unable to login until t...

Print to multiple printers in one schedule

Need the ability to print to multiple printers in one schedule. I can work-around this by creating a report view but that is a lot of extra work when you just want to print to two printers. thank you.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Tooll to be able add the Unload Utility and HPU

Have a process to unload test data and load it to another environment. Currently each database has 1 job where the elapsed time is very long. It would be great to have the tool load balance this over multiple jobs.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase dasd volume limit beyond 1 disk

With our current storage configuration, CDC is giving a IEC032I E37-08 on our sysut1. It's our understanding that CDC does not currently allow multivolume datasets. We're requesting that 'feature' be added.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable Dropdown in PaFe (Excel) when cell lock is applied

Users like PaFe addin and comfortable working in excel. So the template developed in excel they want to protect using cell security provided by excel. This Pafe template will be used both online and offline commit purpose. It is observed that when...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to process milliseconds in Time Format

SPSS Modeler does not currently support milliseconds within a time stamp field. This is a commonly used format in our line of business that currently affects 150 users, and growing. The current workaround is to convert the time stamp field int...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration