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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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Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. Sun Life Canada is one example where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from CO...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

I want to execute an arbitrary process when the workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.

<AsIs> Currently, the only way to start a process is to click a button or execute it as a job. <ToBe> I want to be able to execute an arbitrary process when the Workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Create a Graviton ARM build for Linux for cplex

Useful for better performance on AWS compute.
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Allow Exclude criteria to be directly specified in ADB2GEN

We are driving automation by dynamically building a list of objects to 'GEN' the DDL for. However we also need to dynamically build a list of objects to exclude. Currently ADB2GEN only allows reference to a pre existing exclude which has to be cre...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Thread filter in the server log

When watching the live log it is often necessary to focus on a single thread. Currently the search function helps with finding the lines related to a thread but a better solution would be to have a filter next to the already existing filter for Le...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release