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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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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Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

Recovery Expert should have an option to exclude objects/partitions from the recovery which had no activity. Even though this would be caught by the Recover Utility, why build JCL that contains TS/Partitions which would not be recover. This causes...
8 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDAA Insync Client certificate authentication support

We use a functional ID for IDAA replication - integrated synchronization. We need a compliant method for the functional ID authentication that is manageable. Currently, for IDAA replication in-sync process, We are using a functional ID with fixed ...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi Parameter conditional formatting

Adding the ability to create multi parameter "and" statements within PAW conditional formatting would enable more unified & visually appealing representation of cube views; allowing you to focus in on specific areas of the P&L without repe...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add support for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW syntax

I've seen that Db2 LUW and other types of databases support the syntax to do CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. This can be useful as you don't have to have a separate statement to drop a view before rerunning a create statement. I had a new DB2 DBA on our t...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration