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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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Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Explainability of generated Java code

it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

A View with Select * should be regenertated without Drop/Create View

We have a lot of views defined with Select *. Since DB2 V8 we have the option to add columns to the base table, but the view does not include the new column, which is ok and accepted. But to get the new column we have to drop and recreate the View...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

We found that E-Private SP230 Key0 storage growth was occurred in IIDR Classc Capture service. It was due to SMF type 30 EXCP information at DD name dynamic allocation. Our case was 100 thousand DD Dynamic allocation for IMS OLDS open. . Then, I'...
about 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bulk actions

I am having to action 50 tasks individually. Considerable time taken. Please consider the following: to manually reset all submissions without save as workaround to manually activate/disable all tasks in a plan
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

LOAD with COPY=YES and TSM needs similar resilience feature like log archiving with VENDOR_ARCHIVE_TIMEOUT

FI has set of LOAD jobs (with COPY=YES and use of TSM) which run in parallel against the Db2 data warehouse.FI experienced failing LOAD jobs in the LAN-free TSM backup environment for the Db2. FI sees risk for the LOAD jobs when TSM is not availab...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration