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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.

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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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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support daylight savings for scheduled jobs

In current state operations team need to go admin console to adjust the jobs to reflect the daylight savings. We have an operational impact if the job missed certain deadline due to manual intervention.
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Handling Refresh tokens(Schedule strategy) for Azure AD generic namespace.

In OIDC Generic security namespace , there is an option to use Refresh tokens as a scheduling strategy instead of using the password flow. When this approach is used , refresh tokens will be used for getting an access token when the schedule runs/...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under 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.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

IDAA V7: Add missing option to monitor IDAA appliance (HW error messages)

pain point: Currently there is no other way how to check appliance HW messages, than download trace (taking 3-5 hours) and check the trace or create new IBM CASE with the lab support and just wait. proposal: Add option how to issue basic monitorin...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Planned for future release