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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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Tracking refactored code blocks as they are sliced in refactoring assistant

When slicing code blocks in the Refactoring Assistant, it would be helpful if there was some tracking so that the user knows what has been sliced previously. Even if this tracking is just for the current session or workbook, this would be helpful....
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Global parameters with group permission

In Cognos Analytics the concept of global parameters was introduced. in the Administration section you can set permissions on paramters based on user roles. If a user has more roles you need to set the priority. It would be helpful if the permissi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connection between forms in Web

It would be very usefull if on WEB it would be possible to link another form to a postion. This is possible on classic application but not on Web, which is important. For example in form NB12 we have account BAB02 and I want to click on this accou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Object should go into advisory reorg when PCTFREE, PCTFREE for update, FREEPAGE is altered instead of immediate alter to have the REORG pick it up and ensure it is done. Having it immediate is just a catalog update and it might be missed.

When Altering PCTFREE, PCTFREE for UPDATE or FREEPAGE, the DB2 catalog is updated and the DBA must ensure a reorg is run to materialize the change. A process that can be missed. I would like to see this as a pending change and have the reorg pick ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Allow administrators to set the default Homepage tab per Profile

We are using v7.2.0.4 and currently there is no way to set which Homepage tab is the default landing page when users log in. The system always defaults to the Classic Homepage. I can configure the order of the tabs but, regardless of the order, th...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow number fields to be added to header

Allow number fields to be added to header.Critical information such as the Potential Loss amount should be displayed on the Header.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Securing Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Display Utility Command - V12-CERT-2017

Would like the ability to further filter utilities by their status when using the display utility command.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration