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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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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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Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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

ICP4D Dev Environment - 4.0.2 - Enhancement req - Bulk term assignment - Missing notification at the end of term assignment process

Tested using ICP4D MARIA Dev environment Steps to Reproduce Login to MARIA Dev'Navigate to Data DiscoverySelect one of the completed quick scan jobGo to Columns select Bulk assignment of Business termsClick on assign Terms. Expected Result: As per...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove ISPF restriction preventing the actual count of objects returned from using the SARG command

Please remove the ISPF restriction that is preventing the following in Db2 Admin Tool (rejected in DB2ZADMTL-I-85) - I have used panel ADB21K and the count as an example below, but the misleading count occurs on other panels when you have used the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please ensure that no filters are applied when selecting ICOS during project creation.

When creating a project in watsonx.ai SaaS, there is a section where we can select Storage (ICOS). (Screenshot_Create a project.png) It seems that the filter applied on the previous Associate Service screen is also being applied to this selection ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Need of headers in excel export from PAW view

When exporting to excel from a cube view in PAW you can see what settings you have in the dimensions acting as filters. But you can't see what dimensions displayed in the rows. This becomes a problem specifically when nesting several dimensions.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered