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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Audit

Management needs the ability to track the following: => logins by user and time => logout by user and time => All changes made by selected user within the project => When time changes were made by the selected user by project(s) and by...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Access data of SP's WLM DSSPRINT DD in execution time when called from external program (ex. Cobol)

Hi IBM, We opened CASE TS003473597 to treat this issue but as we did not have solution from you we decide to ask it by "new idea". So we have some maintenance COBOL programs that make the call to the SP DSNUTILU to run some db2 utilities, so then ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel - Enable Application URL links to work

Application URL references are created as follows: In the Server Explorer, right-click the Application to which you want to add the URL reference, and click Add URL on the shortcut menu, and enter URL (for example: http://www.Company.com). And the...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Storage Scale (GPFS) ARM64 Source version for Linux (RHEL9)

Spectrum Storage Scale (GPFS) is needed for new NVIDIA Grace Hopper ARM64 Superchip HPC Nodes.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Full support for all Canada Postal Codes (6 digits) in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps

Current support for Canadian Postal Codes in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps is limited to the first 3 digits of the postal code. To satisfy reporting requirements, we are needing the ability to map the geographic areas for all Canadian Postal Codes with...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable a stage/path on canvas

Be able to toggle stages and execution paths as on/off. Gray out the stage icon if it's been deactivated. During development and debugging you want to be able to test up to a certain point and but may not want to include every aspect. But if you d...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hide / UnHide Columns after generated report

Provide the options for setting Columns to Hide / UnHide after a report is generated. The Saved custom view can be updated.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt PEM file for PAW

Currently, the pa-workspace.pem, while base64, is in an unencrypted format. Since this file contains the private key for the certificate, it can be vulnerable to back actors. When a company's wildcard certificate is used in the PEM file, the risks...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User welcome mail

When adding a new user to CPD we have to provide a mail address and a default password to create the user. After that, we have to send the username and the password to the user on another way. It would be nice to automatically send a welcome mail ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration