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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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Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set default Project quota

CPD admins can set Project quotas to enforce resource constraints on Projects. It is only possible to set the quota after the project is created, which allows room for risk that a user/group can consume too many resources before an Admin has the o...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Audit History Dashboard drill-down to History details

When changes are made on the item, changes by attribute with old value and new value are available on single idem edit in tab Audit history in table History details. When looking at the Audit History Dashboard, there are columns for e.g. added and...
10 months ago in Product Master 0

CP4D - Need API for Zen database to collect user and group information

As per the UIOLI process, we need to pull user, group and last accessed timestamp of a user for CP4D. This is inline with case #TS015500667, we are able to see the required information of users and groups in ZEN database. Now, we want to know if t...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Reports on Data Quality Jobs Available in a Project

The User of CP4D would like to have the reporting database to report on the number of jobs a particular project has.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration