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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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Option to open report in new tab/window

Reports can be toggled in the Navigation Menu, but the ability to view reports side-by-side would be useful. An option to open the report into a new tab/window would be helpful
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow customer to use custom authentication to generate JWT

Related to idea WTNXDATA-I-33. Customer uses a certificate that is generated at login time. The watsonx.data (CP4D) control plane supports using a custom authentication service (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=users-enab...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Not under consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Have the DB2 CLP Support Database Names Greater Than 8 Characters

The DB2 CLP does not recognize database names or aliases that are greater than 8 characters. Please enhance it to support longer database names.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration