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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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Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Resize Selectors / Cube View

In PA Workspace, there seems to be no method to resize the text size on cube views or element selectors.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Text cell format in PA Workspace

To optimize the use of automated reports, we need to have the possibility to add comments (text format) using colors or bold fonts for example. Today, we only have the possibility to add black and white comments, with simple fonts. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Creating a specific/Dedicated WML Runtime Node

Currently, WML does not allow scheduled runtime pod (enable pod affinity) on a dedicated node, Due to this we are increasing the Node Size where WML is running, based on the Load we need to scale accordingly. So we request to have a Dedicated Node...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Manual Journal Entry information needed in Planning Analytics

The FP&A team needs more details about the journals for their finance analysis, including header information as available in the reports XBJH and XDB22 from Cognos Controller. These information could also be leveraged to help automating some o...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Way to identify and extract all emails sent from openpages/cognos for auditing

As per the audit requirement, we would like to extract all the email triggered from Openpages (via workflows, triggers, etc) and cognos (via schedules ,etc..) for a point of time like last 1 week or 1day with below details.. Email recipients Email...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration