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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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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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Separate ability to run dashboard from ability to create dashboard

Modify security for dashboards to allow consumers to be able to run dashboard without granting them access to create dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Delivered

Hide Queries option in report studion 11.1+ as it was in all previous versions

ad-hoc users should not have ability create custom SQLs or joins in report studio.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Provide a ZPARM to prevent creating new non UTS-tablespaces

I have converted all single table tablespaces to UTS, but some days later new non UTS-tablespaces were created, which I again converted. And again new ones were created, so this process could go for ever.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Delivered

Print Objects to PDF

When trying to print to pdf, all fields within the object are not displayed, even if all sections are expanded. The functionality is useful during reviews and requests from regulators. At times the exports and Cognos reports cut off longer fields.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Delivered

Export Configuration for Role Templates via UI

With OpenPages v7.4 it is now possible to import a Role Template via the "Import Configuration" feature. However to export a single Role Template, the ObjectManager still has to be leveraged (requiring application server access). Being able to sel...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

The customer would like to integrate CP4D with MS Azure's key vault for external secrets management.

The customer manages all the secrets with MS Azure's key vault. For example, to setup all Cloud Pack for data TLS connections we need to use a customer CA certificate managed by MS Azure's key vault.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

DSNJ114I should indicate the failed copy

We had an issue (see TS154521528) where we lost all archives due to an issue with the copy2 copies on tape but instead it was the copy1 that was indicated as failed due to a storage abend but without any external message.
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered