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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 Date Picker on Questionnaire Template questions

Can we add Date Picker on Questionnaire Template questions along with options like single choice, multiple choice etc.?
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record

Provide Option to Run Calculation on specific Record. sometime Bulk calculation fail or it fail for some particular record, Need option to OPA user to run such calculation on specific record. Currently option is too flip value and set it back.
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

AI Assistant should be applied to user work flow, not just data

The AI assistant should be able to look at what a user is commonly doing within Cognos and suggest better ways of doing it. It should work with the user to set up these suggestions. Cognos is a complicated product, and users don't often use it the...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Allow a WHERE clause for ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to delete data while moving a table

One of the most painful things to do is to delete a huge amount of data. One workaround for this is to export the data needed and then LOAD/REPLACE back into the same table, but this requires an outage of the table to accomplish. If a WHERE clause...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. For a few clients where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from COBOL 4.x to 6....
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Enhance search features on grid views

It is our understanding that in grid views (incl. filtered lists), only "name" and "description" fields can be searched on. We would like the ability to search on other fields displayed in the grid view.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration