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


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Offer the same options for shortcut like for report (for example Create report view)

In Cognos 10.2 you have option like Create report view, Edit report, ... directly for shortcut. Now in Cognos 11 this options are available only for report itself.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Allow to ALTER (and CREATE) a Db2 pageset with the max allowable size

The current maximum for PRIQTY is 64GB. If one wants to avoid extent processing in z/OS and has pagesets larger than 64GB, there is no option (besides user-defined pagesets) to achieve this. By using IAG2 we encountered the fact that IAG2 is somet...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User-Friendly Data or Event Alert Tool

Please add the ability to send an email or SMS alert based on a user-defined trigger, like a data-based alert. Have it send alerts or run + send reports to email or mobile device. The legacy Event Studio tool has more than enough functionality - b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Watsonx Pipelines should provide higher level DSL for creating Pipelines programmatically

Currently Watsonx Pipelines provide an API for managing Pipelines as described under https://pipelines-api.s3-web.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/#model-pipelineJson However that API seems very tied to the UI and the payload needed to c...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Allow reset of all High Water Mark Statistics values

Currently some statistics HWM values are not reset while Db2 is active - e.g. Q3STCTHW. Consequently a transient event can hide a long term situation. This idea would allow those statistics to be re-set to zero - allowing performance management to...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration