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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Link to Source Report for Report Views

Link to source report from report views has been removed. We use lot of report views with set prompts and do change these prompjt values from time to time also point report views to other reports when a newly developed report is to used.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automating Java Code Fixes in WCA4z with Agentic AI

Business Challenge Current Limitation: The WCA4z tool transforms legacy code into Java. However, the transformed Java code often contains syntax or semantic errors that require significant manual intervention to fix. This process is time-consuming...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Planned for future release

Hide Hierarchy Name in Column & Line Charts that Actually Works

I received this response from raising a ticket about the hide hierarchy name toggle not actually working: "Hide hierarchy name" in legend property is currently an expected limitation of the chart engine we are using. When using multiple members fo...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Dashboard - without Editing the Dashboard, in Properties - show the PACKAGE/ Data Module source.

Presently, I do not see a way of knowing the Package / Data Module a Dashboard uses as it's source without EDIITING the Dashboard. It would be helpful if the full Breadcrumb path to the Package/Data Module is visible from outside of the EDIT optio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Add a visualization to the "Try it out" expereince that shows the intent confidence threshould

Google Dialog Flow has a functionality for its developers that WA does not have: the json of the response is easily inspected in the tooling as "diagnostic info". Our premier customer sent me this email to complain: > Hey Anna, > >...
about 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Delivered

Supply RACF Exit IRREVX01 to fail commands against Db2 classes that don't have the proper syntax.

As encountered in Case TS013914362, invalid profiles would not be created that could leave unused records in the RACF data base and also confuse Db2 when RACF notifies Db2 to refresh the cached profiles. All Db2 for z/OS users utilizing RACF could...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

As a SPSS developer you need the option to work with "timestamps with milliseconds" since the data records are only uniquely described by the milliseconds in some sources.

When creating a "Data Asset" node, you can select the table and "preview" the content. Here you can see timestamp values with milliseconds (e.g. 1986-07-28T12:45:52.402Z). After the "Data Asset" node is created, the "Preview" shows the timestamp w...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered