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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Set Display Selected... by default on the Associate dialog box

Now, on the task-focused UI, users have to click on the icon (with 3 dots) to display all associations (via the Display Selected... option).
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

256 VLDB2012 - DB2 command addition -DISPLAY SCHEMA

DB2 commands need to be improved in many aspects to provide additional usability, functionality and detail. -DISPLAY SCHEMA This would provide identical functionality to -DISPLAY DATABASE but with qualifiers based on SCHEMA and TABLE/INDEX (OBJECT...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ASSOCIATE trigger fires multiple times at the time of object creation

Requirement: A ‘Review' object can only be created when user selects only one ‘Report' object as primary parent and only one ‘Model' and ‘Usage' objects as secondary parents. Once the object is created, a workflow has to be kicked off. Otherwise a...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration

Recent values display

Some objects lend themselves to seeing ‘recent values' e.g. Evals, KPIV, KRIV etc. Yet there is no option in the new UI to show ‘last value' or ‘last x values'. For KRIs/KPIs this trend may be critical info (in table or chart)
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

sort process by creation date

I'm currently creating processes and collegues a mois as well, and we'd like to be able to perform other display sorting than the current alphabetical default.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CA hyperlinks

The use of Hyperlinks in CA have changed compared to C10.xcertain URLs do not work, displaying a blank page.The user should be notified if the website they are attempting to access via HTML prevents the use of iframe.See details in the Use Case be...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ could...
over 6 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration