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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.

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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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Extend Db2 Message monitoring IFCID 197 to include information about message tokens

Our shop is using ITM Situation management to heavily automate processing/notification for our customers and thus minimize the use of custom logic to be maintained (specific REXX programs etc.) . One feature that we leverage is the OMEGAMON for Db...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
10 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for this SYSCOPY's index?

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for the SYSCOPY's index?, since DB2 v12 all tablespaces should be defined as Universal Table Space, PBR or PBG. Segmented and Simple tablespaces are deprecated.
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Suppression of validation check messages

Need the ability to suppress validation checks and only display custom validation messages in production environments. Currently when a validation fails all validation check messages are displayed on the screen as well as the custom validation mes...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Introduce Data Connection Permission

We would like to request creating an additional permission that would allow an individual to create a data connection at the project level. Right now, if a user has access to a data asset outside of a project, they can connect to the data from wit...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted