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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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'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

In PAW, add option to overwrite existing asset/book when we copy/paste or move an asset to another folder

in Planning Analytics Workspace 'Report and Analytics', when trying to copy/paste or move an asset/book from one folder to another (for example from Personal to Shared, after having imported a new version of some report through Lifecycle Manager),...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Windows Server 2022

Please support Windows Server 2022 on v11.5 and vNext. Windows Server 2022 was released in August 2021 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Windows Server 2019 is January 2024 but it takes time for u...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Ubuntu 22.04

Please support Ubuntu 22.04 on v11.5 and vNext. Ubuntu 22.04 was released in April 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is April 2025 but it takes time for us to package, test and d...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Set Special Registers with profile tables for local applications

It would be nice to set the current explain mode (special register) with the help of profile tables (dsn_profile_table & dsn_profile_attributes) for local applications. In our case it's CICS. At the moment it's only possible for remote applica...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

GitLab Integration (Scripts/Stream Version/Branch Management )

Users need to manage updating/reverting version/branches of scripts/data in CP4D projects.With limited feature in CP4DaaS, users cannot manage versions of their work products in CP4D projects. GitLab integration is required.(GitLab is preferable, ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration