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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

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


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Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
2 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Ability to filter data in a Grid view from same Business Entity

When selecting associated records (Eg: Selecting Processes under an RCSA), we would like to have the ability to restrict data from same business entity. Currently we can have filters but the filters cannot be dynamic to restrict data from same par...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Submitted

Additional informaton at mouseover for elements in rows and columns

I would like to have the possibility to provide more information about the elements that are displayed in rows and columns. The topic arose from a user request. The users would like to receive an extended description of a key figure via mouseover....
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Enhance DSN1COMP to provide more information on LOB's

There is a need to have a greater handle on LOB columns with regard to their size and storage. At the moment the only way to analyse the lengths of the LOBs is through using expensive SQL with BIF LENGTH and SUBSTR. It really only possible to do s...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
about 2 months ago in Db2 2 Submitted

Copy everything from one environment to another, except data

Currently, when refreshing a lower environment from production, we are required to bring production data into the lower environment, which poses a data security risk for our company. If OpenPages offered a tool or option to export everything from ...
18 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 0 Submitted

Monitoring Data for Online Models - CP4D

Hello, we are requesting for info on online deployments. At the moment, we are able to get logs via nginx pods of the requests that come through a model, but more info would make a difference for customers. For example there could be a monitoring ...
18 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted