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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Connection between forms in Web

It would be very usefull if on WEB it would be possible to link another form to a postion. This is possible on classic application but not on Web, which is important. For example in form NB12 we have account BAB02 and I want to click on this accou...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

INFORMIX AUTO INDEX

When no suitable index is created, the optimizer does an "auto create index" for the query. This proposed index should be printed out to the online.log to help the admin to create the optimized indexes for the queries.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

BACKUP DATABASE VENDOR AZURE

Please extend BACKUP DATABASE to support cloud vendor type of AZURE. Presently, DB2 only supports S3 protocols.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Support for IBCS Reporting Standards

Most of the reporting standards of IBCS (Hichert) are currently not supported. Examples: Data Labels on charts / Legend within the chart Fixed colors for scenarios in charts / meaningful color selection Chart Types (Waterfall) etc.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

View/Expand per dimension

Functionality to be able to set the exploration feature (show +/- on rows) in PAW per dimension and not just per view.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

PAW Lifecycle Snapshot allow for incremental migration of worksheets with Action Buttons

Scenario: Client has many PAW workbooks each with Action buttons which navigate to other workbooks. Problem: If client wants to change only one workbook, they are unable to migrate only this workbook as the navigation links which reference this up...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

In 2. View SQLCODEs, display also Host Variable values for the SQL in error

We migrated from CA Detector which display Host Variable values together with the SQL Text in error. We lost this function after migrating to IBM Query Monitor.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration