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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.

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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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Dynamically manage the size of DD DSNINFO for Recover expert SLB

DD DSNINFO is hardcoded with fixed allocation parameters, and they are not always sufficient. A manual override is needed. Given that the workload has been increasing over the years, the default values may no longer suffice, requiring more frequen...
3 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

CQM - Enhancing Granularity in SQL Code Monitoring and Detail Collection

Currently, there is a limitation in the MAX_SQLCODE_DETAIL parameter, as it does not allow exemption of a single negative SQL code. This becomes evident in the CQM$SQCM panel, where although a significant number of entries for a specific SQLCODE, ...
9 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Support self-implemented common services / library functions

e.g. abend handling, error information generation, commit handling, …
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a dat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release