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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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.

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watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package, that was available in 10.2.2 but not in CA11.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Access to audit data

We have created a dashboard to be able to do analysis on the audit data in our Cognos Analytics on Cloud hosted environment. The issue is that the IBM CAoC provided audit database is too slow, so the widgets are never able to complete, and the das...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Cognos for Microsoft Office capability to import nested contents from Cognos dashboard reports to Excel - TS000938522

On Cognos Analytics for MSO add-in v11, layouts and formats of Imported Contents from Cognos list cross-tab reports or dashboards with nested contents, are changing in any Microsoft document. Formatted cells change fonts, Merged cells in Cognos ar...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Determine last modification of report specification (xml) by user

Currently it is possible to determine when the report was initially created (Created Date) and when the report or its settings as a whole were changed. The "Modified Date" changes as well when a report output version is being stored or by job exec...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Tab Names

When outputting report booklet to Excel, there is no way to name the tabs. Ideally, those names should be controlled from properties of the Report Booklet reports.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

remove MSSQL deprecated datatypes from schema

Microsoft SQL Server has deprecated the data types TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT. Is there an effort to update the audit, notification store and content store databases to use new data types such as: (varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) and etc.). ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Planned for future release