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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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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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Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Provide detailed documentation regarding the "Search" feature

The "new and improved" search feature in Cognos Analytics is currently poorly documented.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rule Trace to include line of code

Add the feature to show what Line Number the rule of code is in the Trace feature. This would just be a great convenience when troubleshooting calculations.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Grid View functionality

Having a Grid View that displays quite a few fields is not an issue on a large screen (see attached screenshot 01_large screen.png). But on a small (laptop) screen you are not able to see all columns anymore (see attached screenshot 02_small scree...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Option to view Cube viewer and browse in classic mode(Like how it is in TM1 Architect/TM1 Perspectives) for PAw and PAx

This will be a good option for user adaptation from the TM1 Architect or TM1 Perspectives to the future tool IBM Planning Analytics Workspace(PAw) and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel(PAx). It simply provides an ease of user interface into TM1 Cub...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

HTTPv1 and HTTPv2 coverage in Outgoing Channels

Currently, the HTTP outgoing channel comply with version 1.0 of the http protocol. This is an obsolete version of it and modern versions must be covered as it can crash with customers architectural standards. For example: http "Host" header is not...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted