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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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Translate Cobol to Java on IBM i

Clients want to modernize their legacy and monolithic applications built years ago using db2 with Cobol on IBM i. They want to innovate, have a scalable solution, reduce operational risks and HR risks (not rely on deep expertise in cobol resources...

Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
7 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration
102 VOTE

Method for downgrading FixPack level of Db2 pureScale

In order to downgrade FP level of pureScale, uninstall the product, re-install and recovery from backup are needed.This is time consuming and cannot be done online.Customer want some easy FP fallback method.Most customer plan to FP upgrade with so...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow Admin user to Preview different role/user access

Currently changing profiles as an admin user to different role-based profiles provides some indication that group membership, roles & profiles are working as designed. However, they also allow visibility to objects that the profile wouldn't se...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review
110 VOTE

Missing functionality from C10 to C11: "Send report as email" or "Email Report"

In previous versions of Cognos Business Intelligence (10.2.x) we had the option to send a report by email directly from the Cognos Viewer - this option no longer exists in Cognos Analytics (11.0.6). See use case for details and screenshots.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
25 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

job comparison between different environments (like in 11.7)

Currently in 11.7 - there is an option to compare the jobs between different environments. It helps to identify what actually changed comparing to the production copy and helps for UAT. The same options is missing in CP4D.
25 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
26 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Submitted

Applications: Configure default action of the Navigation Pane (Collapsed or Expanded)

Hi team, I'd like to attach single PAW asset (book - landing page) with the navigation (action) buttons ) to the Application tile and therefore I'd like the side Application Navigation Pane to be collapsed (or hidden) by default. This approach wil...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration