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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 1 Submitted
697 VOTE

Send Email on Report Failure

We need an email sent to the report author when a scheduled report fails. This way, we could re-run the report or research the failure.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11

Support for HP NS COBOL

CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...

Be able to launch a workflow from a calculation

It would be useful in situations where you want to start a workflow when specific conditions happen on your object. A user could make changes on a child object which in turn changes a calculated value on the parent. Once that change takes place a ...
25 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review
697 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Enhance Obsolete Package Cleanup

Be able to feed the existing obsolete package cleanup process with a user generated list of packages for cleanup.
18 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review
427 VOTE

Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 72 Future consideration
606 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 8 Future consideration