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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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Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Add row count back to export dialog for views

It is useful to know how many rows are being exported (particularly for a large view) before you select to export it. We have customers upset to have lost this functionality as it existed in the tm1web view export dialog.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Conditional automatic journals to post values on different from REPO journal types

When using conditional automatic journals, it is not possible to re-direct postings to a different journal type then REPO, even if puting it on "Journal type" field, on control table. Even if filtering Trial Balance to show only REPO/BASE, automat...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 8 Needs more information

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
8 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Allow IAM access for server to S3 to work for Db2 backups

AWS allows a server or container to have an IAM role that allows access to S3 and other resources without authentication. However, cataloging a storage alias requires a key and secret key to work, regardless of whether the IAM role is set up for t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Future consideration

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
30 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

we need an automated process to regenerate jobs to use the latest software

We have about 300 jobs with the tool Every time software is updated we need to regenerate all the jobs to use the new software. If we were allowed to use variables in the tool we would not need to do this. The process to regenerate the jobs is ver...
30 days ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

SPSS Statistics Connector to Intersystems IRIS Database

Create a native connector for Intersystems IRIS database in IBM SPSS and other relevant products, enabling seamless data integration and analysis for customers who use IRIS as their primary database. This connector would simplify data access, redu...
30 days ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted