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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.

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.

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


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Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

DVM JDBC Gateway official documentation missing

The official DVM documentation does not provide the necessary steps to configure the DataSource connection configuration on JDBC Gateway using SSL and Kerberos on z/OS LPAR. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dvm/1.1.0?topic=ssl-enabling-support https://...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

For QMF 13 migration to a different platform -- Please provide export and import features for Scheduled Tasks, User Preferences, QMF Weblinks and other such items in QMF Appdata

We are looking to migrate from QMF 12.2.0.5 to QMF 13.1.1.0 IF1 on Windows environment . To migrate everything which resides in Application Data which includes among other things like Scheduled Tasks, User Preferences, QMF Weblinks etc . There is ...
11 days ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Submitted
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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 9 Not under consideration

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

rate limiting to avoid excess password attempt

This vulnerability was discovered by attempting numerous incorrect passwords for a backup, followed by the correct one, and observing that authentication succeeded without any delay or lockout.There are password-protected backups available to user...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
7 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted