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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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 'net accounting of intercompany balances' option in standard report

Applicable to IBM Cognos Controller v 11 -> In standard report 'group / reconcile / intercompany balances', there is a default option 'net accounting of intercompany balances'. Such option doesn't exist in the standard report 'company / reconci...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Ability to call REST APIs as a data source in Watson Query

We are currently probing the capabilities of Watson Query to support a data mesh architecture by acting as virtual layer over our heterogenous IT landscape, providing uniformly structured data services to the consumers. A large number of our data ...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Support for HP NS COBOL

CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

Oracle CDC: Add the ability to mine only the archived redo logs with Primary DB

The customer is testing a 3 pipeline design pattern of Oracle CDC → Snowflake use-case on SDC 5.10, Oracle RAC DB with PDB. They are testing the jobs in a test environment with production like volumes. During the test, they noticed in the logs tha...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Null Handling with CDC live audit setup

Problem Statement: In our current CDC setup tables are mapped with Live audit where supplementary logging is enabled only on primary key columns and for other columns supplementary logging is not enabled. And hence we cannot differentiate between ...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Information security application that allows the obfuscation of sensitive information for other users

When importing and working with information about objects, processes, and clients, many of my OpenPages clients have suggested to me that there may be an improvement in terms of security, and that, as an auditable information management tool, it s...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Grid view/ dashboard filters

Every user has to set up their own dashboards which is time consuming. If we can share/copy others filters, this would enable users to create dashboards much quicker.
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

Devops pipeline in CP4D - automated deployment to next environment

Our team manages over 300 developers working on various projects in CP4D, utilizing a diverse array of assets. Due to ITSS requirements, it's essential to maintain a clear separation of duties between developers who implement solutions and the ope...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review