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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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Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS ALTER FUNCTION REPLACE for inline SQL scalar and SQL table functions

Create an ALTER FUNCTION REPLACE statement for inline SQL scalar and SQL table functions such as already exists for compiled SQL functions and native SQL procedures. This would give the ability of the user to modify the source code for these funct...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web to have copy values, journals and opening balance functions

Current Controller Web 10.3 FP1 does not have copy functions for company level like in Controller Client. to include all company level functions into Controller Web so that users can perform the same tasks as Client users. instead of asking group/...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Support of AIX 7.3 with MDM 11.6.0.11

We went through the system requirements and found that WAS 9.0.5.11 ND is supported by Advanced Edition of IBM MDM at 11.6.0.11. We have recently upgraded our OS (AIX) version from 7.1 (7.1 TL5 SP1) into 7.3 (7.3 TL0 SP1 ) in lower environments (D...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Save sql output from ADM Tool exec sql.

Sometimes, DBA need to save the sql output to PDS from ADM Tool after executing a select.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Cognos does not permit to choose the from table in a query

IBM Cognos does not allow to choose the from table in a query. The only way to do this is to convert the SQL expression (not affordable in case we'd like to add fields). Use Case: I would like to retrieve the SOX_Issue ID Field and name. In the sa...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration