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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

DB2 should provide a built-in stored procedure for sending emails

Other DBRMs including DB2 LUW provide built-in options to send an email by calling a stored procedure. DB2 for zOS doesn't support that.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Materialize a reorg pending change through part-level reorgs

At the moment an AREOR exception state can only be solved by reorganizing the whole (partitioned) tablespace in one go. We want to do the materialization in several sequential steps on a part-level base.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Quick Reference Customization

Being able to use the Quick Reference a adjust the contents and links underneath after designing my own extension and theme.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maintain Profile name for fields exported with Field Definition option

When migration releases between OpenPages environments, customers would need to export individual fields that were created in the source environment and import the fields to the target environment. Customer does not want to export the full object ...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Save Report to Uploaded CSV File or consume directly in Data Module

Create option to save a report output so that it gets directly uploaded into Cognos again as an external file and can then be consumed by a Data Module. Or alternatively have Data Modules consume reports directly We currently have about 20 Cognos ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Schedules delivered to API urls and ftpd to third party servers

Currently schedules can be uploaded to Cognos servers only and emailed. There is ask from customers who want to go get Reports delivered /uploaded to their company servers and APIs
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Preview feature for file attachments

We received a request for an enhancement to the Supporting Documents and Artifacts (file attachments) grid functionality in the TFUI. When user is viewing file attachments associated to an object in the object's task view, the request is to be abl...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Applications or plans should be able to reference a particular page in a PAW book

When adding an asset to an application or plan, there is no ability to select an individual tab in a book. The default behavior is to select the first tab in the book. Often books have multiple tabs in them, and these may be used in different appl...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration