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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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Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Conditional Formatting in Visualization

PAW gives the ability to create a conditional format rule in a cube view such as "highlight revenue red if below 100", but this rule won’t hold if the cube view is switched to a visualization. I am looking for an option to have a column chart wher...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add CA integration with Github

We would like to have native cognos analytics integration to github to store all sources/specs (reports/dashboards/..) to implement easily CI/CD. Today we use third party tools to version and deliver but with github integration it would be more na...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Action button progress

For TI processes behind PAW buttons, we can monitor the progress. It seems that for TI processes behind action buttons coming from a PAfE spreadsheet, this is not possible. The customer would like to monitor the progress too, rather than the unhel...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Sending a reply from MQ-Listener even when the MSGTYPE is not REQUEST

Currently it is possible to change the REPLY-Queue and REPLY-QueueManager via StoredProcedures which are started by the MQ-Listener if the Message was sended with MessageType = REQUEST. But it is not possible to send a REPLY if the MessageType is ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

enable queryno for static SQL in cqm tables RFE 126827

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126827 provide query no for static sql in GUI, ISPF and datastores so that it can be saved in cqm tables Use Case customer saves cqm data in db2 ta...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Hide Namespace in Schedule Directory

While auditing for security processes I discovered that some of our external sources have the ability to see and if possible email internal recipients; this includes some proprietary recipients. I would IBM to create the ability for IBM support pe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Option to disable Pin command on dashboard visualizations toolbar

Sended here by IBM support team. Some people can Pin visualizations outside the dashboard context. And this option can compromise our Data Management policies.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow functionality to navigate left/right in a data table using keyboard keys, specifically in the case selection page.

Currently in 5.7 you can navigate up/down/left/right in any data table using the keyboard keys however in 6.3 you can only up/down on the overall page with the keyboard, you cannot up/down/left/right in a table result. The main place we would like...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 1 Future consideration

Supply DBD-Informix Driver for PERL DBI on Linux

I was doing DB development in an Ubuntu/Linux enviornment using PERL. PERL has a database abstraction layer called DBI. Supports preparing queries to both MySQL and Informix with no changes. It does rely on a lower layer DB interface driver, for I...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration