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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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Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Sort Order in the Output of Burst Reports

The order of output versions for a burst report is not in sorted order. Users are looking for enhancement as soon as possible since this feature is available in Cognos 10.2.1
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run Metrics Feature displays incorrect Results on CP4D

We should be able to find rows information when writing to Target Dataset stage on DataStage
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Disable User Accounts When Option Checked

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, a user account could be disabled by placing a check in the appropriate box within the user's advanced profile property sheet. This box, still exists but for whatever reason no longer works as one would exp...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Refactor Assistant: Not cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation

Case number TS015819461 Please find the recommendation for Refactor Assistant on cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation. Please open a case as Mark requested to improve RA tool capability. #5 – Refact...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

FTM MER to be able to receive abort notification messages(xsys.012) from SWIFT

When SWIFT generates the negative response (in this case xsys.012), PBB would want FTM MER to be able to pick up the necessary information from Payload and route it to the configured System Message que instead of dropping it to the Error que. When...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0

Currently the developer needs pod level access to write python code on Cloud Pak for Data DataStage. It will help if python code can be added to DataStage jobs through a UI with developer level access.

Developers are trying to call python from DataStage. The wrapped stage has the ability to call python in parallel execution mode. However the script as we see resides on the px engine pod and hence is not practical for developers to use. Other opt...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to set e-mail sensitivity label

This is a customer submitted question. Can sensitivity labels be applied to scheduled Costpoint BI reports or are there plans to do so in the future? For added security and protection.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration