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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.

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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Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to Pivot a table that is displayed on a dashboard

Once a table visualization has been added to a dashboard, it would be helpful to have the ability to Pivot it. A table containing only one row, but many columns has the limitation that it truncates the field headings. If it could be listed from to...
22 days ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Submitted

IBM Verify Device Deletion (QR/FIDO) Reason Capture

This idea is for ISVA 10.0.7 , the IAM solution does not provide the feasibility of capturing the reasons for deletion of details . This function is important form an audit and security .
22 days ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Web service (API) for LDAP user and role management in MDM UI in local groups of MDM

We need an API service (Web service) for user role and access management in by adding LDAP users in MDM WAS local groups in MDM UI.
23 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos REST API - Permission check that only displaying the folders/items the logged in user has permissions to view.

Via de Cognos REST API - The call: api/v1/content/team_folders/itemslogged on as a specific user with a security token, you always see all the folders of present. It is not limited for the folders that the user has access to.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Not under consideration
107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists