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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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Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add support for data retention for OpenPages

EU financial regulators now have stringent requirements around data retention and other regulators elsewhere are likely to follow soon. Such data retention requirements specify that certain customer/seller data must be deleted after a period of ti...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Under review

Cognos 11.1.7 Dashboard: Disable automatic grouping in tables

The automatic grouping can become confusing in the table. In addition, the text is centered horizontally in the grouping.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Indication of the reason for conversion by drop/create

In our environment, we try to execute all changes to DB2 tables online via Alter commands if possible. However, there are a lot of reasons why in some cases the Alter is not possible and as a consequence Admintool correctly chooses the conversion ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4

Similar to Unix/Linux CLI to access Storage Volumes on CP4D

Currently on on-prem environment, We use Unix environment to place all the DataStage supporting files and we perform multiple actions on the files, using Unix commands like AWK / SED / CHMOD / Housekeeping Script Creation etc., . As we moving to C...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to Disable/Enable a Process within a Chore without removing it

It is time consuming when you want to not have a process run in a chore temporarily, to first go in and remove it from the chore, then secondly return later and lookup up the process from a long list of processes to reinstate it and then lastly mo...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Format Negative numbers in parentheses in dashboard

We have cognos analytics 11.1.7FP2. We wanted to change the way negative numbers are displayed on a dashboard. IF there are negative numbers like -2567 we want to be able to change the format and show it as (2567) on a dashboard. It works fine in ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

PAW - dynamic images

There is a PAW book with Selector and Image, and URLs stored as the dimension attribute. It would be great to be able synchronize the image widget with the selector. So when the client clicks on the element in the Selector, the URL gets passed to ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration