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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow SQL to reference a Temporal table and Transparent archiving table in the same statement

We have adopted widespread use of System Time functionality on our application tables. We have need to use transparent archiving as well, since we have table where data churn is significant and we don't have need to track row changes - just the fi...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Table Data and Table Header to Table Definition

this is an ask for adding table header cells and table header cells to table definition. Currently we seeing this issue from Dashboard perspective
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Logs translated to english

Updates 03/28/2024. Two requirements - (1) This is clarified by ING few weeks back they want the user interface in a language other than whats set in Browser Locale. Engineering researching and would do some PoC. May be large effort and a larger i...
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Set Special Registers with profile tables for local applications

It would be nice to set the current explain mode (special register) with the help of profile tables (dsn_profile_table & dsn_profile_attributes) for local applications. In our case it's CICS. At the moment it's only possible for remote applica...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

User Access Management

Over time we had many users and many of them become idle, left IBM or got another role. Keeping these users generates risk. We want to remove these users and I couldn't remove them all by one step. I had to do it one by one and it took a lot of ti...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All/This tabs filter - ability to exclude values from a filter

Would like to the ability to exclude values from an all/this tab filters. I.e we show account types, if we want to show just expense account type, we either have to add the filter to the canvas instead of as a filter or go through. The Account typ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Users From Using Cognos Groups And Roles As Email Recipients

Currently, any user can setup a Cognos report, subscription, or schedule to email any Cognos group or role. This means any Cognos group or role can be used as an email DL. For Cognos Admins and Focals, this is a very nice feature. However, end use...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review