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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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Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dark mode for Planning Analytics

Just a nice feature to have if IBM can enable dark mode so that TI processes can be developed much like VS Code UI and easy on the eyes as shown below. What I found was utilising the javascript but would be nice to have it permanently.
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Create options to disable hierarchy feature

Right now in PA, hierarchy option is enabled by default whether you want to use it or not. We want to have a way to enable/disable it through config parameter, so that people can use it rightly. Please make this option as false by default and peop...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log/historic record of who lock or unlock a object

We do not have information of who and when lock or unlock any object in the Openpages GRC.(using the padlock near the object code/name)And that information is important to determine when and who make this kind of modification in any object to take...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Ability to exclude URLs in all Email Notifications

Within our organisation, a security based control is being introduced where any emails from internal systems used must not include any URLs. Within OpenPages there are hard coded notifications which we cannot modify such as workflow reminders, whi...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

For Reconciliation reports in Cognos,Please group the party vs counterparty information rather than breaking the Party vs Counterparty relationships into multiple sections

Business Users have reported that they are facing issues with the reconciliation reports breaking the party vs counterparty information.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information