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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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PAW - Format Row/Column by attribute

(See attached documents for detailed screenshots) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW have wonderful self-service capabilities. However, when building a dashboard to present data, there’s very f...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Datagate authnetification using user / certificate

« At the present time we’re using Datagate to replicate in a live stream our DB2 z databases on DB2 LUW (Linux one) instances. This replication is done using a fixed user/password to connect to our DB2z instances. As it’s not recommended by our se...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Auto Generate and Email PDF Reports

A schedule that can automatically export a PAW dashboard as PDF and send as attachment via email to users or identified email addresses.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report layout is not same as layout of the old version

In the current version/setup, we are running the embedded report library, which may cause slight layout differences in some reports. The embedded report library cannot be modified directly and requires an enhancement or idea request. The current v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered

Copy readable links with correct report/folder path

In Cognos 10 you can copy a folder or a report name in cognos connection. When you paste this to an Email, you get a readable link with the whole path. eg Folder1>Folder2>Reportname In Cognos 11 this is not possible. The only way is to sh...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Renaming of file attachments in Event Studio email task

We are using even studio to generate output from multiple reports and send them in single mail to with all attachments. When we attach report outputs, it is autometically adding locale information as suffix which users don't want to see. Also, we ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reports: Queries: Add ability to search the data model within the "Data Item Expression Editor"

This idea applies to report editing . When you edit your Queries (Query Subjects) you have the option to search the data model (refer to attached screenshot named "SearchDataModelWithinQueriesPanel.png"). However, you cannot search the data model ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration