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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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Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Make it easier to run Consolidations automatically

Our main User Group (Group Consolidation team) are aware of the ability to create automatic Consolidaitions via menu "Consolidation With Status" and "Schedule job...". But they want to create Consolidations on batch/schedule them in a more automat...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Category export should provide collaborators with their roles

Users should be able to export all important category information. Now collaborators of the category are not exported. I think collaborators and their roles are vital information of the category. In addition, when exporting categories the template...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow Notebooks to be deployed to Deployment Space

The inconsistency of what can be deployed to a Space seems in need of attention. We should be able to deploy a Jupyter Notebook to a deployment space. We have been using notebooks as job controllers in a sense, for datastage flows/pipelines, and b...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

Schedule Job for Bi-Weekly run

I would like to schedule the job Bi-weekly on every Thursday. However when I create a job it's not showing any option for running job on Bi-Weekly basis. It would be helpful if we have option for scheduling a job for Bi-weekly. We need to move our...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 2 Future consideration

Add dashboard und datamodule to folder und package functions for permission control

There is no option to specify functionpermissions for packages and folders regarding dashboards and the datamodule. The attached screenshot shows the possible options. Moreover the screenshot shows that the options are displayed using the old IU e...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration