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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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description in tiles view

In cognos connection description for objects (reports etc.) is available in tiles view. Description for folder (or other objects) is NOT available in tiles view. For users it would be much more comfortable to see the description for ALL objects (i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Prohibit inoperative packages after drop function

DROP and CREATE of userdefined function KZZ.LEXSORT set packages KIS##01 and KIS##30 to inoperative. Error in IMS region BOKMSG8F: SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E30305, TYPE OF RESOURCE 0...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate). As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio. In Business Insig...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide a nested crosstab column

In crosstab report " box type " property is "none " is applied on nested data items in column but not on their parents. See APAR PI30191I
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Default for language selection listbox when override the default report properties

When the checkbox «Override the default values» is checked in the report properties panel, the format and the language must be specify. we don't want specifcy the language. Only the format must be specify. The language must depends to the user p...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow better monitoring of DB2 Thread/Connection types

Currently there are various ZPARMs to "control" thread management (CTHREAD,MAXDBAT,CONDBAT,IDFORE,IDBACK,etc). These ZPARMS are upper bound limits of the number of each type of thread/connection that DB2 is configured with. There is very little in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations

There is no way to translate Report Studio query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations (no report language variable, no additional options). Automatic summary elements only have one name too ("summary (measure)"). Regardless of the langua...
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...
almost 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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration