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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

IBM CDC support on Orcale - AWS RDS

The request is to support the IBM CDC replication engine for Oracle - AWS RDS. In the specific case all pre. req. of Oracle XStreme and Oracle databases are supported by AWS and AWS RDS Oracle custom managed (Amazon RDS custom) are satisfy.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Provide an option to wipe all entries from a defined risk list

Currently there is no option to wipe all entries of a risk list. A risk list can also not be deleted as long as it contains entries. You have to manually select/mark all entries of a list and delete them. Setting a high amount of rows per page doe...
9 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration