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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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Cognos 11.0.7 - Ability to hide/edit 'Quick reference' links from Welcome Page.

Links of Quick reference included to the Welcome page are not relevant to our business users - we'd like to be able to hide them or replace with business related references.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Prompts: variable default values

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User needing a simpler reporting experience Description:Reporting users have a need for reports that are easy to use. Prompt controls allow hard-coded default values. Sometimes the users want default values...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Delivered

Replacement for DB Link to allow sensible database access from OPL

DB Link functionality was removed from version 12.7 and this prevents the sensible accessing of databases from OPL by removing the availability of DBConnection, DBRead, DBUpdate and DBExecute. Whilst there were various issues and bugs with the dat...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Delivered

The customer would like to integrate CP4D with MS Azure's key vault for external secrets management.

The customer manages all the secrets with MS Azure's key vault. For example, to setup all Cloud Pack for data TLS connections we need to use a customer CA certificate managed by MS Azure's key vault.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

Print Objects to PDF

When trying to print to pdf, all fields within the object are not displayed, even if all sections are expanded. The functionality is useful during reviews and requests from regulators. At times the exports and Cognos reports cut off longer fields.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions 16.x support

I ask you if it is possible to adding support for the latest release 15 and 16 already released 2 and 1 years ago, on the roadmap.
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

ADB2GEN: generate DDL for hidden ROWID columns

We have several tables that contain LOB columns and thus also a generated rowid column. If an extra column is added, it will be placed at the end. If we now generate DDL for a table with a LOB column via ADB2GEN, then the generated rowid column is...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Embedded Workflow Validation User Defined Error Message

Embedded Workflow Validation Screen add ability for a user defined error message. Would like to see an option where the person creating the workflow can add either and application text key that will contain the text for the validation error messag...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Delivered

Save to the File System in Cognos Clouds

Current onsite cognos environment allows Save to the file system which is not available in Cognos Cloud environment.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered