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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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Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow developers to set the column width for Cube views in PAW and disregard members as the context.

The general issue can be seen at this link https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=3067&MessageKey=34afee39-b281-43ab-93f0-83b1d9e81797&CommunityKey=8fde0600-e22...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Replace the 404 page for SDC 6.0.0 with an Informational page like Platform's headless UI page.

This is really to stay consistent in Platform like when navigating to the SDC page to accept the certificate. The 404 page causes confusion as there might be something wrong. A replacement page with information that SDC 6 no longer has a UI would ...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

To implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Add Folder" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simu...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Please implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Copy to" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simultaneousl...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted