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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 option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Renewing credentials

'Automatically renew trusted credential' in Cognos Analytics 11 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998776 In SSO it is impossible to automatically renew trusted credential
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an ability to start a q subscription via MODIFY on the Capture started task

Currently Q Capture subscriptions can be interacted with either via MODIFY command invoked on a Q Capture started task, or SQL insert statements executed on table IBMQREP_SIGNAL. For many customers, executing a MODIFY command to perform an action ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Future consideration

QIDCA (Quantum Integrated Distributed Computing Architecture) is a revolutionary framework that integrates quantum computing and classical distributed systems to enhance computational power, security, and efficiency in data processing and problem-solving tasks.

Why is QIDCA useful? QIDCA is useful because it leverages the unique strengths of both quantum and classical computing to tackle complex problems more efficiently than traditional methods alone. By integrating quantum computing's ability to handle...
4 months ago in Db2 / Compression 0 Not under consideration

Ability to disable printing

Our application stores sensitive data. We have architected it with security in mind, are using role based access to restrict data and have included confidential watermarks on COGNOS reports, while also restricting who can export data/reports from ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Enhance lsmake4 to support Grouped Target's in the latest version of make 4.4.1

Currently our tools are using Grouped Target's which don't properly work causing quite a bit of rework after the initial compile.
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Identify when all members of a Data Sharing Group are up and operational

After a crash or hard down, Db2 will perform its recovery processing including GRECP and LPL processing. There are external systems (e.g. CICS, MQ, etc.) that are dependent on all members in the data-sharing group to be fully up and operational an...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Autosuggest/autocomplete feature when typing in a dropdown field in WKC .

Autosuggest/autocomplete feature when typing in a dropdown field in WKC .Not able to perform fast search (by typing In field) this a usability issue. This is slowing down our users work.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration