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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Record usage of application plan

In our production environment we have about 15000 application plans. Most of them are probably still used but a lot of them have not been used for several years. We want to get rid of the old ones not to have to rebind them at every new release of...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Have Templates for column selection+order in queries

Typically you have dozens or hundres of queries, many using an identical configuraton of columns. You need to specifiy those columns in every query. When changing the order or adding/removing columnsit is a pain to update them. When creating you q...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 1 Future consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RI support for tables with mixed encoding schemes

MR012908405 GGDB208012 GGDB207014
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration